Quotes & Sayings About Change George Bernard Shaw

When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish old orders and set up new. — George Bernard Shaw

I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles. — Ian Curtis

Those who can't change their minds can't change anything. — George Bernard Shaw

You were the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all that we needed. — Alice Hoffman

Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard Shaw, Keir Hardie, Lloyd George, Selfridge or Disraeli, you will find that they are not really English at all, but Irish, Scotch, Welsh, American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes, sometimes great changes. But, secretly or openly, they always deplore them. — Raymond Postgate

I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat! — Jeremy Irvine

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw — Wayne W. Dyer

When in doubt, go back to sleep. — T.K. Toppin

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on. — Stephen King

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to it until I really know the voice of that character. It's almost as if the character is speaking to me. — Kimberly Willis Holt

Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust. — George Bernard Shaw

Weakness begets evil — Jo Goodman

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it. — George Bernard Shaw

To fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence ... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim ... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States ... and that is its aim everywhere else.
(writing of public education in the April 1924 The American Mercury) — H.L. Mencken

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. — George Bernard Shaw

When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well. — George Bernard Shaw

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change — George Bernard Shaw

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. — George Bernard Shaw

In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator. — Friedrich Schiller

The problem and the question on 'Breaking Bad' is always 'Where is Walt's head at?' — Peter Gould

One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods. — Robert Benchley

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't. — George Bernard Shaw

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time. — David Mamet

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling. — Jonas Salk

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws. — Marilyn French