We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet we all know that life experiences do change us.

Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.

I was born left-handed but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road ' which was very long I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser so later on I had to change it.

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid or to change to a belief in anything else.

As far as friendships go things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing which is cool.

Sureness is something like a neck brace which we clamp around our lives hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening constant whiplash of change. Sadly the brace doesn't always hold.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right versus what you were doing which was wrong.

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

I shoot a little bit maybe two rolls medium format which is 20 pictures and if it's not working I change the position.

This great though disastrous culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer which everyone will at some point.

If we're going to change the laws let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by but often they change or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

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.

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough some of which go and others come.

Which goes to show you you can make all the laws you want but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them you have to understand that it will take a long time.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

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.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.