Can't Change Quotes - Page 9

• Hillary Clinton's message is old and tired. Her message is that things can't change. My message is that things have to change.

  Donald Trump

  Tired, Messages, Clinton

  "CNN Newsroom" with Brooke Baldwin, www.cnn.com. June 22, 2016.

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• My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

  Alex Trebek

  Past, Life Is, Can't Change

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• People say that you can't change people's minds with a movie or book, but how do they get formed in the first place? They get formed by what we see and read. In a certain way, movies are ahead of their times. People make them and don't really know if the audience will respond to them. Once in a while, they do.

  Thom Andersen

  Book, People, Mind

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Prayer, Law, Perfect

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• You can't change when you're defensive.

  George Kohlrieser

  Can't Change

  "Overcome Obstacles for Change" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2014.

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• You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall.

  Chris Hadfield

  Wall, Together, Collaboration

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.69, Pan Macmillan

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• You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

  Neal Shusterman

  Law, Nurse, Firsts

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• Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

  Saul Bellow

  Blessing, Boredom, Conviction

  Saul Bellow (2012). “The Adventures of Augie March”, p.646, Penguin UK

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• I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  People, Facts, Painting

  Vincent van Gogh (1987). “Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality”, Gloucester

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• That's life and you can't change anything, you know.

  Irina Slutskaya

  Can't Change, Knows

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• If you want the great and mighty things God has for you, you must get to the root of anger and deal with it. Get rid of the masks and face the things that happened in your life that made you the way you are today. Admit that you can't change by yourself. Until the root is removed, it'll continue to produce one bad fruit after another.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Roots, Want

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• I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

  Mary Alice

  Mistake, Past, Can't Change

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• Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, Agreement, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

  Hugh Prather

  Boredom, Looks, Way

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.34, Bantam

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• Just because I can't change everything, doesn't mean I shouldn't try to change anything at all.

  Tim McIlrath

  Mean, Trying, Because I Can

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

  T. Harv Eker

  Change, Knowledge, Knowing

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 30, 2014

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• I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

  Harold Brodkey

  Giving Up, Past, Thinking

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• The judgment that you pass today will only hinder a person in their spiritual evolution. All you do is say to the person, psychically: "This is what you are. You're fixed. You can't change."

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Yoga, Today

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• You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change.

  Renan Barao

  Attitude, Mma, Feet

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• You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Healthy, World, Break

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• Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based off of their hearts all the time. There's so much more to relationships than just love.

  Colleen Hoover

  Regret, Father, Heart

  Colleen Hoover (2012). “Slammed”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

  Guy Spier

  Understanding, Trying, World

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• My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

  Antoni Tapies

  People, Looks, World

  "Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Regret, Past, Steps

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• You can't change what you don't understand.

  Orson Scott Card

  Acknowledge, Can't Change

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.241, Macmillan

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