The European auto industry made a commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 140 grams per kilometer. But then there was a significant change in what customers wanted in their vehicles. – Martin Winterkorn
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. – Norman Borlaug
Maybe the higher echelons of my range aren’t as easily accessible, but that’s OK; you change the key. – Elaine Paige
Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn’t realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it’s done, you can’t remember what all the fuss was about. – Maureen Dowd
Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change. – Natalia Vodianova
Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in ‘Team of Rivals,’ he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. – Douglas Wilder
We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent. – David Blunkett
Faith? Haven’t any. I’m not a nihilist or a relativist. I don’t believe in anything but change. I’m a Heraclitean – you can’t step in the same river twice. – Philip Johnson
Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be aggravated as the population rises to a projected nine billion by mid-century, and by the effects of climate change. An ‘ecological shock’ could irreversibly degrade our environment. – Martin Rees
My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed, when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of my personality is stuck in those five years, and I don’t know if that’s ever gonna change. – Dennis Crowley
To me, art’s highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small. – Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I’m not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I’m helping the public’s opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly. – Candis Cayne
The one thing that I’ve learned is that people don’t change. Each new generation has the same stuff that the last one did. It’s one of those things where jazz kind of works in five-year cycles. – Christian Scott
As a gold-card-carrying member of the nerd herd, I’m usually in the artsy, fringy, PBS-y kind of shows that change maybe five people’s lives forever while leaving everyone else wondering if they can still make the ticket lottery at ‘Wicked.’ – Donna Lynne Champlin
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. – Eleanor Clift
When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most. – Frances Beinecke
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. – David Letterman
IMDb is kind of weird, because people can put things on there, but then I can’t change it. – Missy Peregrym
It’s the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world – but change is slow. – Eric Burdon
But I don’t write about sex for today’s teenagers. Or Doc Martens boots either. I’m more interested in exploring how exactly the world is run, which doesn’t really change that much from one generation to another. – Nina Bawden
This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don’t act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences. – Gary Zukav
I accepted a change in my life. I didn’t choose that change and those are the best changes to make. – Michelle Shocked
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders. – Pope Francis
I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it – not necessarily European-style socialism. It’ll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution. – Christina Hoff Sommers
Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up. I think in a book, in any book, you can have a reactive character. Some of the great novels of all time have had that, but in a film you can’t do that. – Melissa Rosenberg
Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit. – Martin Feldstein
We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become more vulnerable to insect outbreaks, droughts and wildfires. Simultaneously, when our forests are destroyed, their carbon is released back into the atmosphere, further impacting climate change. It’s a horrifying one-two punch. – Chris Noth