Can't Change Quotes - Page 5

• The red washing
  down the bathtub
  can’t change the color of the sea
  at all.

  Derrick C. Brown

  Color, Sea, Red

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• You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

  Neal Shusterman

  Law, Firsts, Human Nature

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't change conditions - just the way you deal with them.

  Jessica Watson

  Way, Deals, Can't Change

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• There are always going to be people that are judgmental that are going to say, 'Well, he was an actor first, so he doesn't have the right to be a musician,' or, 'I know him as this, so therefore I will never accept him as that.' I can't change those people. I can only be myself. And I can only keep making art. I can only do the best that I can. I am not going to spend my life trying to silence the critics. I'm going to do what I'm passionate about and follow my dreams.

  Jared Leto

  Dream, Art, People

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• There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Lesson, Sleep, Thinking

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• We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity.

  Andrew Linzey

  Moving, Animal, Ideas

  "OneKind talks animal ethics with Andrew Linzey". onekind.scot.archived.website. June 21, 2011.

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• We can't change what we've done, but we can always change what we're going to do.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Done, Can't Change

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Time Untime”, p.120, Macmillan

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• Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Change, Believe, Writing

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• You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

  Pat Benatar

  Past, Want, Firsts

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• We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New Friends, Lonesome, Can't Change

  "Vonnegut at 80". Interview with David Hoppe, www.nuvo.net. January 1, 2003.

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• You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.

  Anita Roddick

  Inspirational, Lds, Views

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  You can't change the fruit without changing the root.

  Stephen Covey

  Roots, Fruit, Can't Change

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.254, Mango Media Inc.

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• What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Maya Angelou (1993). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, Random House Canada

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• Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Safe Haven, Past, Can't Change

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2014

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• She silenced him with her mouth, then pulled back. "You can't change what I think of you." He reached up and brushed her lower lip with his thumb. "If you truly knew me, everything you believe would change." "Your heart would be the same. And that is what I love.

  J.R. Ward

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.194, Penguin

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• Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.

  Anne Holm

  Responsibility, Often Is, Faults

  Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics

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• im am who i am i can't change

  Harry Styles

  Who I Am, Can't Change, I Can

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• Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Attitude, Sorrowful, Can't Change

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• You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

  Beatrice Wood

  World, Changing The World, Change Yourself

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• I am 36 years old, I can't change. I have tried, trust me, but I can't. It's nice to get over yourself and just do it.

  Kevin Drew

  Nice, Years, Over You

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 15, 2013.

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• Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Mean, World, Revolution

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• The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing.

  Deshaun Watson

  Football, Player, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

  John Grisham

  Apples, Orange, Genius

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• You can't change music by yourself.

  Johnny Ramone

  Can't Change

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• You can't change someone. The best thing you can do for someone is to just accept them.

  Guy Wilson

  Accepting, Can't Change, Best Things

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