Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write. – Deborah Eisenberg
First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they’re reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that. – Neil LaBute
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Rest is the best thing for your body rather than working out or dieting. Sleep can change your whole metabolism, so it’s my number one priority when it comes to looking good. – Erin Heatherton
Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his ‘third way’ of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it. – Fabrizio Moreira
The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change. – Matt McGorry
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the ’90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother’s name, she’d be touched. – David Nicholls
We can change the world if we change ourselves. We just need to get hold of the old patterns of thinking and dealing with things and start listening to our inner voices and trusting our own superpowers. – Nina Hagen
I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change. – Elfriede Jelinek
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. – George C. Wallace
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system. – Miguel Nicolelis
Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts. – Dalai Lama
The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It’s in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it’s in the courage of every person who changed. – Cheryl Mills
When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, ‘Don’t let the consultants change you,’ and I’d always assured them that I wouldn’t allow it to happen. But like it or not, I had to change. Not because of a consultant, but because I started to understand the cost of a stupid mistake. – Elizabeth Warren
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict? – Max de Pree
When ‘Sex and the City’ aired its first season, people didn’t know about HBO as a place for original series. People weren’t saying, ‘Oh I’ve got to watch ‘Sex and the City’!’ They found it later. In some ways, it helped change what people thought of HBO. – Darren Star
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. – Niels Bohr
There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, ‘Maybe I should just leave.’ – David Schwimmer
It’s so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don’t grow or change because we’re not pushing ourselves. – Flea
Sometimes things happen in life, sometimes they don’t. Don’t get me wrong: I have no regrets – if I could turn the clock back 10 or 20 years, I wouldn’t want to fundamentally change the path my life has taken. – Nicola Sturgeon
It’s such a private thing. It’s a huge decision. It’s not like you wake up one day and say, ‘Oh, I’m going to change my sex – won’t that be fun?’ – Candis Cayne
If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies, then I will not attend. – Paul Gosar
He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind. – Daniel De Leon
They’ve said everything about me that they could: racist, Marxist, rightist, homophobic, sex change – I don’t know what else they could come up with. – Michael Cimino
One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change. – Dave Chappelle
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body. – Dalai Lama
Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it’s necessary for the characters to change. – Maria Semple
Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There’s a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species. – Michele Bachmann