Modified Quotes

129 quotes by 119 authors

In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is in the choices… — Joanna Macy
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed — Abraham Lincoln
This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers… — Swami Vivekananda
It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way… — Karl Blind
Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to… — Levy Mwanawasa
The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking. — Sivananda
Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a… — Simon Schama
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre. — Kenneth Tynan
Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece… — Nick Flynn
When I was council president I had a rule that people could sleep on the job. I modified the rule. You could actually sleep in… — John F. Street
Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be… — Thomas Merton
We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment. — Norbert Wiener
The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are modified and the… — Kukai
Tofu is the root of all evil, and there's only one thing that can change a man's mind, and that's a modified Uzi with an… — Robert Downey, Jr.
Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but… — Guy de Maupassant
THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to… — Edmond Jabes
To the world's most perfect woman. It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or… — Graeme Simsion
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and… — Carroll Quigley
California's Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that - to change the… — Michael Pollan

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