Altering Quotes
142 quotes by 129 authors
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When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
— Ron Wyden
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When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains…
— Louis L'Amour
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Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false…
— Neil Postman
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
— Henry David Thoreau
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We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a…
— Judith McNaught
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I blame Jeb for letting you be such a smart aleck.†I stared at her. “I blame you for altering my DNA! I mean, I…
— James Patterson
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Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and…
— Karl Popper
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He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death…
— Ann Aguirre
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Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric,…
— Naomi Wolf
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I just stood there, looking at her. My head was spinning, my mouth dry, and all I could think about was that I wanted to…
— Sarah Dessen
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...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that…
— Patrick deWitt
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I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches…
— Harlan Coben
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The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.
— Stephen King
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The truth is, those people we feel drawn to most might not be intended as love interests, but rather as life-changing, life-altering presences that come…
— Tonya Hurley
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The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers…
— Stephen King
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I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash…
— Karen Marie Moning
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I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they…
— Charles Bukowski
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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after…
— Jojo Moyes
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men…
— Audre Lorde
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