#change

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#change things #done #expect #how #i

Because you can always count on a book to stay the same . Everything changes when you least expect it, she replies, bitter. Families split apart, and nothing's forever. In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#change

We invite American companies looking to raise capital to list on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. The region has a liquidity oversupply approximating $1 trillion and this pool of capital can be tapped into by creative American companies. The next Facebook may very well get funded on the BSE. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#american companies #bahrain #bse #capital #companies

The first - the most obvious (test of a true social entrepreneur) - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea... The idea - making it happen across society - is something they are married to in the full sense of the word. One key test of that is this: Is this an idea that you see growing out of their whole life? I get very, very suspicious when I see someone who had an idea two years ago. It just doesn't ring true. Because with the typical entrepreneur you can see the roots of the interest when they're very young. There's a real coherence to people's lives. ↗

— Bill Drayton

#social-change #social-entrepreneurship #change

... shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical... This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out alone. Penance, my brother reminded me, was a lonely place to be. ↗

— Sarah Winman

#change

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#better #changed #characters #even #hold

A bit o' bread's what I like from one year's end to the other; but men's stomachs are made so comical, they want a change--they do, I know, God help 'em. ↗

— George Eliot

#novelty #change

If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#argue #broaden #change #definition #exclude

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance. ↗

— Johnny Thunders

#bank #change #except #i #thing

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#change #control #definition #definitions #freedom