Alter Quotes
496 quotes by 417 authors
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It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism…
— Shirley Jackson
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Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance.…
— Philip K. Dick
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A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe.…
— John le Carre
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Some mysteries are simply irresistible,†she said. “They have components that alter a life.
— Anne Rice
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The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could…
— Alan Lightman
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Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.
— Glen Duncan
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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
— Voltaire
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Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense…
— Jack Zipes
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Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these…
— Cory Doctorow
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The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can…
— Tara Brach
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Circumstances should never alter principles!
— Oscar Wilde
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Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that…
— Arnold Bennett
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A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of…
— James Allen
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The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor…
— Margaret Atwood
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Tiffany and I are great friends, and I appreciate all that she is doing for me now. But she is not you. I still love…
— Matthew Quick
Who Wrote These Alter Quotes
417 authors contributed a total of 496 Alter Quotes, led by these top contributors: