Alter Quotes

496 quotes by 417 authors

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future. — Sarah Dessen
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it — Thomas Stearns Eliot
People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. — Terry Pratchett
Okay, now you're starting to scare me," Wes says. "No, scary is the way people can alter their voices on cue. Like your imitation of… — Laurie Faria Stolarz
With our rarely changing temperaments strong emotions can alter us in permanent ways. But he said I did not need to worry about that part… — Stephenie Meyer
Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name… — Jeanette Winterson
Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and,… — Edgar Allan Poe
when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light… — Michael Ondaatje
There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of oneâ€™s mind and alter oneâ€™s whole attitude… — George Orwell
Heâ€™s worth fighting for, but I wonâ€™t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me. — Ann Aguirre
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to… — John Piper
It was funny, he reflected later, how oneâ€™s life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the… — Julia Quinn
What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter. — Jane Austen
He grinned. â€œBusted. Iâ€™m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless â€” and shockingly handsome â€” alter ego.â€ â€œAnd Iâ€™m on top of it,â€ she… — Becca Fitzpatrick
In the center stood a marble alter, where a kid in a toga was doing some sort of ritual in front of a massive golden… — Rick Riordan
Yet here we are, two children and a broken promise later, standing before each other, just the way we stood that day at the alter,… — Emily Giffin
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the… — Tom Stoppard
When a lion stalks a herd, he sneaks in close, lies down, and surveys them to choose his victim. He takes his time. The deer… — Ilona Andrews
I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair:… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I will bear them,… — Eoin Colfer

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