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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.

Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

Love in all its forms is very difficult ... to express. It changes, obviously. If you’re young, and you’re romantically in love with somebody, and often if you’ve just met somebody, its crazy! It’s completely overwhelming. You can’t think of anything else. You just want to climb inside the other person and live under their pancreas. And then it mellows, somewhat... to the point where you can barely look at them... without feeling a mild distaste

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: "It's their fault. I can't change," you stay stuck.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution.

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

Many hands make light work.

Many people look upon change with dread and foreboding. But for those on the spiritual path-for those who believe in God and the power of prayer-change is a fuller expression of life. When a problem or condition arises in your life that indicates a change, rely upon God, and realize that it is not so much that a door has closed on a chapter of your life, but rather that a door has opened on new and more interesting things.

Market leaders continually chart the changing waters.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony - behind the everchanging.

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.

Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.

Mr. Hillaire Belloc has pointed out that science has changed greatly, and for the worse, since it became popular. Some hundred years ago, or more, only very unusual, highly original spirits were attracted to science at all; scientific work was therefore carried out by men of exceptional intelligence. Now, scientists are turned out by mass production in our universities.

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good.

Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which we have no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature, and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance, we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives. When brought forth from the inside and forged by the desire to create personal change, dance has the profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.

Movement in new direction helps find new cheese.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Music can't change the world.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.