Alter Quotes

496 quotes by 417 authors

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another. — Josef Albers
Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better or… — Nancy Kress
When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be… — Rodney Collin
These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But in committing them… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a… — Thomas Paine
Men and women alike, if you think that altering the tip of your nose with surgery will make you happier, I would suggest you alter… — Nick Offerman
The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising… — Unknown Author
For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the… — Audre Lorde
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away. — Prince Charles
The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes… — Benjamin Graham
My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop… — William Zinsser
The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also… — Al Gore
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs,… — Mao Zedong
The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection,… — Alexander Hamilton
What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to… — David Remnick
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the… — James Anthony Froude
Morality is a neat cover for foul venom, but it does not alter the fact that the heart is vile, and the man himself is… — Charles Spurgeon
If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have… — Benjamin Franklin
There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be… — Camille Paglia
They say music can alter moods and talk to you. — Eminem

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