We have the character of an island nation: independent forthright passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.

I think it true that you know sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and actually I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

You can love more than one person in your life but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

Our economic system run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

I wouldn't change a single thing because one change alters every moment that follows it.

We're not trying to change the world just music.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us feeling the world is unpredictable enough try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

I mean language fascinates me anyway and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

You put high heels on and you change.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

To some extent Seattle remains a frontier metropolis a place where people can experiment with their lives and change and grow and make things happen.

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy retiring inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.