Wise and prudent men - intelligent conservatives - have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Related We can only change the world by changing men. CHARLES WELLS We can only change the world by changing men CHARLES WELLS In a group of intelligent men expect only one to be wise. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that peopl... MARK SPITZ I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on... ALDOUS HUXLEY I want to have a million by the time I'm 45, or more of course. But the only way I can achieve that ... DENISE VINCENT We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions ... GEORGE ILES Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things WALT DISNEY COMPANY A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Tacitus -Franklin D. Roosevelt. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials,... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in... DAN HILL You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick. HEATHER LOCKLEAR An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. CHANGING TIMES The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the chan... DON TAPSCOTT The only time a woman can really succeed in changing a man is when he is a baby NATALIE WOOD In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close tie... MICHAEL MANDELBAUM To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something ... CASSANDRA CLARE A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able... THOMAS HOBBES I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed ... VICTOR HUGO I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the... CAMILLE PAGLIA It's a realization that the world is changing and it's changing faster and faster. We saw that the s... ED WHITACRE And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they ca... BILL SIENKIEWICZ In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not takin... CALVIN FOSTER (MARK ZUCKERBERG) You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the... JOEL OSTEEN The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his att... OPRAH WINFREY In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jeffer... EDMUND MORGAN A major bottleneck is actually changing samples and aligning them in the X-ray beam. We don't need t... LAWRENCE SHAPIRO The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundre... JAMES JONES Changing husbands is only changing troubles. KATHLEEN NORRIS The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order durin... HELEN THOMAS The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative atti... JOEL OSTEEN The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we a... GAYLORD NELSON Life is a journey of faces. Each face sees a new group of people changing the face of life and livin... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Thank you for changing the world one cubicle and one workplace at a time. SELISSE BERRY Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself. RUMI Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. RUMI No one ever changed the world waking up at noon. CONNOR CHALFANT Institutions from around the world have invested billions of dollars in Pennsylvania's public compan... GREG TAXIN Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices... AL FRANKEN A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose. GEORGE HERBERT Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-cha... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Be changless, but ever changing. changless in your goals of life, but ever changing in how you achie... BRADLEY ERNEST RIDENOUR Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his ... JOHN PODHORETZ The wise man does no wrong in changing his habits with the times DIONYSUS CATO Better be a chameleon to face this ever changing world. HARESH SIPPY It is personal connections and relationships. And if you look back to a Franklin Roosevelt, a John K... DAVID GARROW The world is changing, and we recognize that a synergistic combination might be in the best interest... JAMES CAYNE Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and ... GEORGE WILL Lies can be created and destroyed however truth can only be transformed from one form to the other w... KIRAN KUMAR A Lies can be created and destroyed however truth can only be transformed from one form to the other w... MOR AGEV Lies can be created and destroyed however truth can only be transformed from one form to the other w... ANDRé FILIPE MATOS DE SOUSA Lies can be created and destroyed however truth can only be transformed from one form to the other w... SHERRON WATKINS Lies can be created and destroyed however truth can only be transformed from one form to the other w... TILLARA GENNETT Lies can be created and destroyed however truth can only be transformed from one form to the other w... WAYNE GRAHAM The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. NATALIE WOOD They are ever-changing. They are unlike immortals who stay young and beautiful forever—who have ti... KAYE ALLEN I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and... JAMES E. FAUST No one remembers how the American people responded day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month about... DONNA BRAZILE Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies... Individuals can struggle mightily a... BRIAN AWEHALI You change our world for the better by changing our world for the better. SCOTT STABILE I don't think we are changing the world here, but we might be influencing a perspective. ERIN FOSTER Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world. ANDREW SOLOMON She shows that the force has a lot of talent in it. It also shows that the police force is becoming ... JOHN MAXWELL I've known for a long time, but I have only really taken it in this morning - and I think I will be ... CHRISTIAN LACROIX How's that song go? 'Things they are a-changing.' But they weren't changing that quickly around here... DARRELL ROYAL Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.
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power to keep from following the crowd. BENJAMIN GRAHAM I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I hav... EURIPIDES The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, unders... JEFFREY SACHS Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves. DAVID J. WOLPE Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. LEO TOLSTOY Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Technology is changing the world; it's changing our sport. It's changing the way people are ... ADAM SILVER Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! THE BIBLE Changing your perspectives will not only transform you but also the whole world. JI-HAE PARK Parents have to keep up with changing times of the world. CLINT NORRED A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA This is a particularly interesting time for the Walt Disney Co.. It is interesting because we operat... BOB IGER The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's... STEPHEN BAYLEY I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that ... TAYLOR HANSON You can bring a whole new look to things by changing the things that are inexpensive and easy to cha... DIANE BOYER You may not be able to change the world, but you can always change somones world. ETHAN GARV** The more a person tries truly to correct the world, the more number of people get often into the act... ANUJ SOMANY Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy. TOLSTOY Today's decisive action will provide us with the flexibility necessary in a changing business enviro... BRUNO BONNELL It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in ... QANDEEL BALOCH George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand s... JOHN LEWIS GADDIS The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strateg... MARK ZUCKERBERG The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in chan... BARRY SCHWARTZ Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —Leo Tolstoy CHRISTINE PORATH Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. ELIE WIESEL Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly. LEROY HOOD We think it's prudent to try new things and to give them a three-year cycle and then look at it agai... ED MCCLURE We've come a long way, and changing a law is really important. What I've realized is laws change, bu... CHARLIZE THERON I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my ... GARY HUME I met (Franklin) Roosevelt once on the back of a train, BOB EDWARDS During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott... ROBERT DALLEK Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, a... JACOB M. APPEL
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themsel... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 19... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative
effort. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT The only thing to fear is fear itself. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which par... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is fun to be in the same decade with you. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - name... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economic... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the v... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority o... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties w... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is wheth... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations,
on faithful prote... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT the first war of the 21st century. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT a poverty-ridden old age. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitude... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We should never forge those that did not return, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT greatly impressed. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It got to a point where I had to get a hair-cut or a violin FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising busi... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent l... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Government run by organized money is the same as government run by the organized mob FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business,... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it ... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I love it--I just love it. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fun... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early wor... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If i... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the f... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he's our SOB FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a s... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT