Modified Quotes

129 quotes by 119 authors

I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that I learned about… — Woody Allen
If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no… — Eugene Ionesco
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.… — James A. Baldwin
Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered… — Charles Darwin
Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency… — Rosy Cole
Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts. — James F. Cooper
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext. — William Hurrell Mallock
As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it… — Charles Darwin
In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it… — Miriam Makeba
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each revelation… — Edward Gibbon
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure… — Michael Pollan
The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the… — Randolph Bourne
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic… — Carl Schmitt
When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include… — Jacque Fresco
In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is thatÂ we don't need genetically modified organisms. — Jacques Diouf
I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified. — James Galway
All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with… — Richard von Weizsaecker
But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form. — John T. Flynn
...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used. — Ansel Adams

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