Alter Quotes

496 Alter quotes by 417 unique authors

Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the… — John Flavel
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians. — George Lucas
The luck will alter and the star will rise. — John Masefield
All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about… — Ludwig von Mises
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎ — Claude Bernard
I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion… — Galileo Galilei
It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control… — Hyman Rickover
Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy. — George Carlin
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just reasoner… — David Hume
After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing… — William Safire
Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working. — Mary Tyler Moore
Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think… — Madonna Ciccone
It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter,… — Charles Spurgeon
The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives. — David O. McKay
Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds. — Janet Morris
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

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