Alter Quotes

496 quotes by 417 authors

Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had.… — Haruki Murakami
he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course… — Stephen King
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words… — Walter Mosley
But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever. — Jane Austen
Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now. — Lord Byron
You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can… — James A. Baldwin
Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do… — Khalil Gibran
For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on… — Joyce Carol Oates
...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will die with a… — Che Guevara
Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable. — Bram Stoker
By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me. — William Shakespeare
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate… — Jane Hamilton
There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It wonâ€™t complain. — Jeanette Winterson
Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything… — A. S. Byatt
What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not. — Cormac McCarthy
It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance. — Ian Mcewan
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. — Sharon Salzberg
You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions. — Ezra Taft Benson
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of… — Derrick Jensen
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. — Ambrose Bierce

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