“I think we should love sinners, and welcome them, and open our arms to them, and then we don't totally accept them into our fellowship as believers and as Christians until they have repented their sins and changed their way of living.” ThinkingWayShouldChristianSinAcceptingChangedArmsBelieverWelcomeSinnerFellowship Author:Billy Graham
“My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture.” ThinkingPhilosophyCultureFatherNamesVoiceChangedDecidedI RealizedIslamicAdmirerFamily NameRushdieIslamic Culture Author:Salman Rushdie
“Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.” ReasonStrongChangedFoundationStructureNever ChangeAnchorsCornerstonesStrong Foundation Author:John Wooden
“I've changed the way I look at things. When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, "This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records." I have fallen into that trap before.” WayLooksSongNumbersRecordsChangedAmountExpectationsSellsFallenTrapsI've Changed Author:Scott Weiland
“The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.” PeopleMeanSometimesAbleDyingChangedIncludingDefinitionsGood Day Author:Atul Gawande
“I felt hopeful for the future because Obama is here. But nothing has changed. It's time for young kids to get serious again and really think about what their four fathers were like. As African-Americans, we are resilient, we are some bad mf-ers, and we are survivors. So get those i-pods out of their ears and become heroes again like the Freedom Riders.” ThinkingKidsYoungFatherFeltFourChangedSeriousHeroEarsAfrican AmericanHopefulSurvivorRidersResilientThings Have Changed Author:Lee Daniels
“I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, "Did you have electricity, Mom?" and I was like okay, enough, kid.” WayChildrenLittlesSaidDifferentEnoughKidsChangedGrewMomInternetComputerGrew UpOkayMachinesMy ChildrenElectricityTeenageAnswering MachinesTeenage Life Author:Jennifer Egan
“The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.” WorldChildrenStillsIdeasWould BeLeftGrowsParentGrowing UpChangedGayHomosexualGay Parents Author:Andrew Solomon
“Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.” GivingOpportunityInterestingChangedGive MeGrateful Author:Meshell Ndegeocello
“There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The other is to let yourself be inspired and even changed by the unique qualities of the place where you're building. We always try to take the second approach.” TryingTwoQualityPossibilityChangedBuildingApproachUniqueInspiredAverageArchitectBe Inspired Author:Rem Koolhaas
“The very dull truth is that writing love scenes is the same as writing other scenes - your job is to be fully engaged in the character's experience. What does this mean to them? How are they changed by it, or not? I remember being a little nervous, as I am when writing any high-stakes, intense scene (death, sex, grief, joy).” WritingMeanLittlesDoeCharacterJobsRememberJoySexGriefChangedTruth IsSceneIntenseNervousEngagedDullStakesWriting Love Author:Madeline Miller
“People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experiences of grief, longing, rage and love remain the same.” PeopleMayWarAgeGriefChangedCircumstancesAnd LoveLongingRagePlanesChariots Author:Madeline Miller
“[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.” YoungKnownChangedStrangePaintingChanged My Life Author:Agnes Varda
“As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It's because before, people tended to think that ideology or religion were the things that actually changed people, but it's been proven that that's not the case. Technology has been proven to be the thing that's actually changing people. So in that sense, it's become a theme in Japanese culture.” PeopleThinkingWellsHas BeensCultureCasesTechnologyNovelInfluenceChangedHugeIdeologyThemeProvenAnimationJapanese CultureJapanese Animation Author:Mamoru Oshii
“In this new era of social media the rules of the road have changed significantly, yet the basic yearning for true connectivity and love have not.” SocialMediaChangedAnd LoveSocial MediaErasYearningNew Era Author:Matthew Hussey
“Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.” YearsUseLastsChangedBuildingDefinitionsEnterpriseSoftware Author:Aaron Levie
“While on the level of civil rights many things have changed decisively for the better, on the level of attitudes and mentality there's still a long way to go. On the other hand it's obvious that it's much easier to change a law than to change a way of thinking.” ThinkingWayLongStillsHandsLawLevelsAttitudeRightsChangedGoes OnEasierObviousCivil RightsMentalityLong WayWay Of ThinkingThings Have ChangedLong Way To Go Author:Dacia Maraini
“After creating something and hearing from someone that it really helped them or changed their life motivates me to continue doing this.” ChangedCreatingHearingCreating Something Author:Jeet Banerjee
“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” IfsWorldHappensLyingPeaceMusicThis WorldChangedMusicianMusic IsGuitarFake PeopleGreat MusicGuitaristInspirational MusicPower Of MusicMusic SoulMusic LifeWorld MusicBlues MusicFamous MusicianMusic Is LifeOld MusicGuitar MusicMusic ArtistPassion For MusicMusic Is My Passion Author:Jimi Hendrix
“I plead guilty to that when I was young pastor. In one of my churches I changed so much, one old wag said I'd changed everything in the church except the signs on the bathroom doors! I could have used a little more wisdom. And common sense.” LittlesSaidYoungUsedChurchCommonDoorsChangedCommon SenseGuiltyPastorBathroomWags Author:Jerry Vines
“Cinema has changed the world. If you go to the beginning of the cinema, you can see that the world started meeting other worlds. It was extraordinary. We saw how other people were living and thinking. How they were sad or happy. We also saw the body - naked or half-naked people, which was prohibited everywhere by religions. This was extremely important.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldImportantBodyHalfSawsChangedMeetingsExtraordinaryNakedCinemaOther Worlds Author:Costa-Gavras
“In the U.S., some extraordinary movies have been made on politics and social issues. We learned lots of things from American cinema. But in the last ten or fifteen years, this has changed drastically. Today, that kind of movie is much easier to make in Europe.” YearsKindHas BeensMadeTodayLastsSocialIssuesChangedEasierTenEuropeExtraordinaryCinemaFifteenSocial IssuesFifteen Years Author:Costa-Gavras
“My spiritual path has largely been Christianity - a label that I embraced and then rejected and have partially embraced again, as my understanding of Christianity has changed over time. When I accepted the mainstream, dogmatic definition of Christianity there came a point when I had to say, "Well, if that's what a Christian is, I'm not one."” IfsWellsChristianSpiritualUnderstandingChristianityPathChangedDefinitionsAcceptedLabelsMainstreamRejectedSpiritual PathDogmatic Author:Tim DeChristopher
“"I've become a huge fan of term limits," the former aide said, "because Armey and the others in leadership used to be just like you and your crew in their approach to spending. They have changed over the years."” YearsSaidPoliticalUsedPoliticsTermFansChangedHugeLike YouLimitsApproachSpendingUsed To BeFormerCrewTerm Limits Author:Mark Sanford
“I got married. My wife changed her name. I know some women have a problem with that. But I wanted her to have my old girlfriend's name. So call me old-fashioned, but this fella does what the Bible tells.” KnowsDoeProblemWantedFunnyNamesComedyWifeChangedMarriedMy WifeGirlfriendCall MeOld FashionedFellasOld Girlfriend Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I think people see me definitely as a "gangsta" rapper, and what people love about me is when they meet me and they meet me again later, I'm the same dude they spoke to and ain't nothing changed.” PeopleThinkingChangedSpokesRapperGangsta Author:Sheek Louch
“I was shooting lots of large format portraits then but I've since changed to digital, where you have so much more control. There are millions of things you can do with digital; you can be more spontaneous, and you're more in control of your color palette.” Can DoMillionsChangedColorShootingDigitalPortraitsSpontaneousFormatPalette Author:Gregory Heisler
“People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life." I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a big effect on them and enabled them to change. I'm not sure I believe that a book will cause someone to change.” PeopleBelieveBookBigsI BelieveCausesEffectsChangedNot SureExaggerationChanged My Life Author:Alix Kates Shulman
“But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.” NeedsBelieveStillsMatterPoliticalCertainMistakeSituationOpinionOne ThingSubjectsChangedCircumstancesStandardsAbsolutesDebateDependentCommandmentsPublic OpinionPollsFidelityPolitical CorrectnessChastityEver AfterCorrectnessRespectabilityAbsolutismOpinion PollsBefore Marriage Author:M. Russell Ballard
“I feel like songwriting changed from something that I liked doing to something that, I feel, is a very important outlet for me to digest all the things around me. Once I put thoughts into a song, I can let it go, it doesn't bug me anymore you know what I mean? It's kind of a catharsis.” KnowsFeelsKindMeanI CanImportantSongChangedSongwritingBugsOutletsLet It GoCatharsis Author:Dan Mangan
“Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically, socially during the time these things were made and how they've changed through history.” MadeStoriesChangedHappeningsEducateOpera Author:Jacob Hashimoto
“I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.” KnowsSaidStatesReasonEnoughFilmSawsNew YorkChangedNeededHorribleDepartmentEditorsAdsMasterpieceNew York TimesAssistantsChanged My LifeHacksDiplomatsButchersCalifornians Author:Thelma Schoonmaker
“In the nineties, it was all women being blonde and from Sweden. But now it's changed: it's all men looking like Ellen DeGeneres.” MenChangedBlondeSweden Author:Pablo Francisco
“Of course, Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed, but that is the business of the surrounding states.” PeopleStatesFacesCoursesChangedSoviet Author:J. Stalin
“When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way.” WayChangedBlockMy WayPlaygroundsDominating Author:Moses Malone
“I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn’t changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not.” PeopleYearsLooksLittlesStillsHappensInterestMistakeCareersPathChangedStrangeYears AgoThings HappenOutlookStrange ThingsCareer PathAnimator Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.” WorldTechnologyForeverChangedInternetPublishing Author:Mary Kay Andrews
“You learn new song until you're comfortable with it to where you can record it blindfolded, but then when it comes out on the record, you forget about those little nuances and those little things that you changed during the recording process. It's those spur-of-the-moment things you do that makes it an entirely new beast that you then again have to relearn.” LittlesMomentsSongProcessForgetRecordsChangedComfortableBeastLittle ThingsSpursNuanceNew SongsBlindfoldedYou ChangedSpur Of The Moment Author:Chuck Ragan
“I have to say for both of us [ with Adam Savage], this experience that we've been having here has changed us dramatically, and we've evolved since we've come on the scene with Mythbusters, because of what we've learned, and that, I think, is the biggest reward for us.” ThinkingChangedSceneRewardsAdamSavagesMythbusters Author:Jamie Hyneman
“I don't think my film style has changed. I'm doing the same kind of jokes I did when I was younger.” ThinkingKindFilmStyleChangedJokes Author:Woody Allen
“I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life.” KnowsWantMindDyingChangedListeningDiscourseTreasonElixirElixir Of Life Author:Jack Nicholson
“I haven't changed - the public has. I'm an insider now, which is hilarious.” HavensChangedInsidersI Haven't Changed Author:John Waters
“Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way.” WayDoeBookEndsCharacterWaterFiveWeekNew YorkChangedSingingListsMainstreamNew York TimesSellersInsidersBest SellersHitchhikingTimes Have ChangedDuets Author:John Waters
“The first real thing was Divine as Jackie Kennedy [in Eat Your Makeup]. His mother found the bloody Jackie Kennedy outfit in the boot of his car and said, 'What is this?" and Divine said, "I am Jackie Kennedy!" His mother just changed the subject; she didn't know what to say.” KnowsFirstsSaidRealMotherFoundSubjectsCarChangedDivineMakeupBootsBloodyReal ThingsJackie Author:John Waters
“Unless you can point to something that I have done or said that has changed the course of the public opinion in a negative way, you've got to check yourself sometimes and say, "Maybe I don't like the way that this thing is said, but it's expanding tolerance." If I said something that was shutting down something that was positive, call me out, but I don't really see me doing that.” IfsWaySaidSometimesDoneCoursesOpinionChangedNegativeToleranceChecksCall MeExpandingPublic OpinionShutting DownCheck Yourself Author:Lizz Winstead
“Rebel Heart changed everything. First of all, it drove me insane - and made me feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. It made me second guess everything, because suddenly I thought, 'Oh god, everyone's heard all these demos.'” FeelsFirstsHeartMadeHeardChangedAnxietyInsaneOverwhelmingRebelDemos Author:Madonna Ciccone
“My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work.” BodyMy OwnChangedShapesEatingTools Author:Lena Dunham
“The world has changed. India cannot sit isolated in one corner and determine its future.” WorldPowerfulChangedIndiaDetermineCornersIsolated Author:Narendra Modi
“I think it is just the way he has changed the game overall and his own game because there are so many situations he has faced. He is now competing mostly against himself, like most great cricketers do. I think he has mastered all of them. The only challenge he has is to beat himself every time he walks out there because he has done almost everything.” ThinkingWayDoneGamesChallengesWalksSituationChangedBeatsCompetingCricketCricketersGame Over Author:Kumar Sangakkara
“I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.” IfsGivingYearsStillsTwoHandsHouseLostFiveChangedGive MeRemainsLegsEaseFive YearsFortyMasterpieceCrippledBaltimoreTwo HandsDecorators Author:H. L. Mencken