Tag: change quotation

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History more often than not shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed sooner rather than later.

My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously on what is and what is not important.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.

Much can and must be done by governments but they cannot of themselves change lives.

Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman – and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

A leopard does not change his spots or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

If you don't like the way the world is you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.