Don't Change Quotes - Page 8

• People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

  Erica Jong

  Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

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• One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

  Don Marquis

  Important, Literature, Care

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• I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.

  David Ortiz

  Running, Home, Guy

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• I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beast, Badgers, Don't Change

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.49, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• I look sad because I don't have the courage to escape from you. And I think I don't want to understand the truth: for you, I am nothing but a dream. You like to play with life, you're not afraid of anything, not even of me. But I want you to know that I am not an object or a doll: I don't change faces on command, I like to sit down every day in the same place, on my own chair, and I know that you, you like to leave, to go to a new place every day.

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

  Dream, Thinking, Play

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• I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Lines, Don't Change, Subjects

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• People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don't change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Girl, Dream, Grief

  Josephine Humphreys (2000). “Dreams of Sleep”, p.32, Penguin

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• If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Upset, Don't Change, Okay

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.151, Penguin

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• People don't change. There are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers. Black and white. I don't know where gray fits in, or if you can even live in that shade.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Black And White, Two, People

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• Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say you can't judge a book by its cover but that's not true because it says right on the cover what's inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don't change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colors. Books are not like people. Books are safe.

  Kathryn Erskine

  Book, Color, People

  Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.21, Penguin

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• Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophy, Lying, Moving

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.30, Hamilton Books

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• You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.

  Jay-Z

  Self, The End Of The Day, World

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.47, Random House Group

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• Annabeth frowned. "That doesn't make sense. But why were you visiting --" Her eyes widened. "Hermes said you bear the curse of Achilles. Hestia said the same thing. Did you . . . did you bathe in the River Styx?" "Don't change the subject." "Percy! Did you or not?" "Um . . .maybe a little.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Rivers, Bears

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• I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to look up in the dictionary. The books are shorter, but there's just not that much difference other than that to be honest. And the funny thing is, I have adult writer friends [to whom I would say], "Would you think of writing a children's book?" and they go, "No, God, I wouldn't know how." They're quite intimidated by the concept of it. And when I say to children's books writers, would they write an adult book, they say no because they think they're too good for it.

  John Boyne

  Children, Book, Writing

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• A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Thinking, Vanity, Wind

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• As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint must stay constant.

  Milton Resnick

  Change, Long, Paint

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• Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

  Giannina Braschi

  Truth, Giving, Don't Change

  "Empire of Dreams". Book by Giannina Braschi, 1988.

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• Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Meaningful, People, Feelings

  Chris Guillebeau (2010). “The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World”, p.125, Penguin

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• I believe your personality is formed at a very early age. Fame can magnify that personality, for good or bad, but it can't change it. So when people say to me, 'Don't change,' I'm thinking, To what? To who? Who else would I be?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• You can lose your weight, but you can't lose your personality. And people's personalities don't change.

  Ruth Marcus

  People, Personality, Weight

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Prayer, World, Praying

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• Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

  Margaret Murray

  Government, Underwear, Don't Change

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• people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

  May Sinclair

  People, Trouble, Don't Change

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• If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.

  Mark Bittman

  Heart, Simple, Animal

  Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.58, Clarkson Potter

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• Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world.

  Annabel Pitcher

  Country, Clothes You Wear, Cities

  Annabel Pitcher (2012). “Ketchup Clouds”, p.170, Hachette UK

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