Quotes about Change
I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so.
- Graham Greene
You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us... But if you are interested in life it never lets you down. I am interested in the blueness of the cheese.
- Graham Greene
five years work many changes. At the end of a war all our portraits are out of date: the timid man had been given a gun to slay with, and the brave man had found is nerve fail him in the barrage.
- Graham Greene
Maybe I'm growing up, Thomas'. But there were tears in his voice, and he looked younger than he had ever done.
- Graham Greene
Remorse is feeling sorry, while repentance is being sorry enough to stop.
- Greg Laurie
If you want to see a revival, do revival-like things.
- Greg Laurie
Like the prodigal's father, God accepts us as we are. But He doesn't want to leave us that way. God will change us.
- Greg Laurie
If we hope to be transformed, we have to allow God's Word to have more credibility than our present feelings.
- Gregory Boyd
Knowing that something is true does not in and of itself ensure that this truth will make a significant difference in our lives.
- Gregory Boyd
If I can be in a place where my image is encouraging people to see different people behind the camera, and my image and the images I make can help open up a certain world view, I think that's all a part of a larger spirit of change and progress, and I'm happy to be part of it.
- Ava DuVernay
Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.
- William Golding
Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
- Ian Mckellen