President Clinton's support of the LGBT community and recognition that DOMA, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, is unconstitutional and should be struck down shows that the political landscape continues to change in favor of LGBT equality. Leaders and allies like President Clinton are critical to moving our march for equality forward.
— Wilson Cruz
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.
— Willy Brandt
You've got the power to change people's lives just by talking to them for a few minutes or by smiling at them. It makes you feel kinda weird, but it can also make you feel really good.
— Willie Cauley-Stein
When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.
— William Wells Brown
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward.
— William T. Vollmann
No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.
— William Shatner
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
— William Pollard
Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.
— William Moulton Marston
Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid.
— William Morris
Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.
— William Lloyd Garrison
If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.
— William Julius Wilson
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
— William James
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
— William J. Clinton
The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent.
— William Hurt
I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.
— William Hague
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
— William H. McRaven
Steve Warren's work and career have opened doors for out professionals across the entertainment industry. In addition to advocating for LGBT people, he has continuously mobilized a large base of high-profile allies to help bring about social change.
If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.
— Willow Smith
A lot of NBA GMs have asked me about me why I changed my middle name to Trill. Actually, the reason why I filed the paperwork to change my name was so that I could officially add my mother's last name, Stein, to my own. My mom is my best friend, and I wanted to honor her.
I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.
— William Weld
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's important to try to do different things - change what I write about, and also the way I write. Otherwise, I'd just be repeating myself, which wouldn't be good for me or fair to my readers.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
— William S. Burroughs
If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.
— William Petersen
Big companies do not want to disrupt themselves. All they want to do is improve themselves. They see the blockchain as another IT project. It's going to save money; it's going improve a process here and there. It's not going to change their business.
— William Mougayar
I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.
In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America.
— William L. Jenkins
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring.
With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
— William Irwin Thompson
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
You can't change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
I haven't done much rereading or rewatching stuff I've written over the years, but I did look at 'Misery' before I started the play. I liked it. Not much I would change.
— William Goldman
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
— Wilma Mankiller
Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'
— Willie Nelson
Everything can change. You can always have hope.
— Willie Aames
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.
— William O. Douglas
Blockchain infiltration will be met with resistance because it is an extreme change.
There's a growing sense among large corporations that to solve global problems like climate change, the responsibility can't fall just on the government. The business community has to be a big piece of that.
— William M. Daley
Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get electricity and power. Deforestation is a huge problem in Malawi, which only adds to the problem. People cut down trees because they have no power to run electric stoves, etc. So they use firewood.
— William Kamkwamba
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country.
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.
As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
