Alter Quotes

496 Alter quotes by 417 unique authors

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest… — Robert Schumann
If you really want to know, I’d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing’s done now, of course,… — J.M.G. Le ClÃ©zio
I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot… — Peter Ackroyd
If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish… — William S. Burroughs
Acts 10:38 says, “See how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing good.” He just got up every day and did good. Everywhere… — Joyce Meyer
And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Whatever comes cannot alter one thing. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive… — Howard Zinn
…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of… — Seth Grahame-Smith
We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will… — Aron Ralston
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 one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude… — George Orwell
He’s worth fighting for, but I won’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 one’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. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” 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

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