Altered Quotes
257 quotes by 233 authors
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
— Francis Bacon
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.
— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
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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
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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
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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
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It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.
— John Lyly
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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