Altered Quotes
257 quotes by 232 authors
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God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be…
— Paulo Coelho
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Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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An irrelevance, and your life's altered.
— Aldous Huxley
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What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and…
— Anais Nin
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...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp…
— E E Cummings
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Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's…
— Sarah Dessen
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This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually…
— Sarah Dessen
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In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered…
— Carol Shields
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Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry.
— Iggy Pop
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If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?
— T.H. White
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
— Bertrand Russell
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For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't…
— Kathleen Norris
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The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or…
— Stephenie Meyer
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What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?…
— George MacDonald
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In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage…
— Lev Grossman
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Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered?
— Ellen Hopkins
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The word 'truth' itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience as the sole…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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