#change

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now. ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#believe #change #day #different #i

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#change #character #conviction #defining #essential

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music. ↗

— Randy Bachman

#bounce #buying #certain #change #get

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#alter #altered #better #spontaneously #things

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city. ↗

— David Bailey

#build #changes #city #estate #everything

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going. ↗

— Ella Baker

#come #faced #find #going #got

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world. ↗

— Christian Bale

#backpack #been #bit #breath #change

Now come,” he said. “Does your Alex love you back, or is he a hopeless idiot?” “He loves me,” she said quietly. “But I’m afraid he’ll stop after we marry. He’ll change his mind. He’ll—” “He’ll love you more. Trust me.” “Really?” She was far too somber. “Really.” He had no words to make her smile, and so Gareth tweaked her nose. And she giggled. It had been a long time since he’d laughed. But despite all those years, he still remembered how. What he’d forgotten was the lightness of his soul when he did so. The moment was perfect. ↗

— Courtney Milan

#gareth #laura #proof-by-seduction #change

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#change #cultural #driven #exclusive #great

If you do just one thing—make one conscious choice—that can change the world, go organic. Buy organic food. Stop using chemicals and start supporting organic farmers. No other single choice you can make to improve the health of your family and the planet will have greater positive repercussions for our future. ↗

— Maria Rodale

#diet #nutrition #organic #change