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257 quotes by 233 authors

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be… — John Bolton
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within. — Phyllis Bottome
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me,… — Emily Bronte
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. — Abdallah II
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be… — Harlan Coben
Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that… — Oswald Chambers
After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the waters, nature led… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered. — Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working… — Douglas MacArthur
To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want… — Bernie Siegel
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every… — George Johnson
It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing. — John Lyly
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and… — Gerald Brenan
With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but… — Helen Keller
Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period… — Charles Evans Hughes
The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now… — Hugh Miller
I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh.… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
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
Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim,… — Frederick Douglass

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