Alter Quotes

496 Alter quotes by 417 unique authors

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 won’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
I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a… — Rob Sheffield
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible. — Graham Greene
Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you… — Dorothy Parker
Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if… — Agatha Christie
Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change,… — Iain Banks
Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and… — Michael J. Fox
Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes… — Daniel J. Siegel
I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that… — Don DeLillo
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that,… — Anita Shreve
Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this — Ram Dass

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