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257 quotes by 229 authors

I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology is destiny. I'm… — Aimee Friedman
If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon… — James Howard Kunstler
Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives… — Cassandra Clare
A child, thought Carl, is not the only result of childbirth. A mother, too, is born. You see them every day--nondescript women with a bulge… — Joshua Ferris
Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges. — Umberto Eco
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a… — Steven Pinker
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of… — Oscar Wilde
He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat. — Cormac McCarthy
Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the… — Helen Fielding
We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which… — Philip K. Dick
at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than youâ€™ve ever been. They all border one… — Cecelia Ahern
In Ixion music and party are our only beliefs. Darkness is our comfort. We have few rules but they are absolute. Your endocrine systems have… — Marianne de Pierres
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
That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even… — Eric Weiner
You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of… — Cormac McCarthy
It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered. — Nelson Mandela
â€Ž"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to… — C.S. Lewis
The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didnâ€™t belong to her, one that wasnâ€™t in her control. It changed… — Terry Pratchett
Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act. — Stephen King

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