Alter Quotes

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter. (Confucius)
Though God cannot alter the past, historians can. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude. View quote
William James
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. View quote
Vera Rubin
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence... View quote
John Adams
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. View quote
George Washington
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. View quote
Marcel Proust
If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up. (Peter David)
We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness. View quote
Andrew Weil
No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
The problem of fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you do can alter the name. View quote
Jerry Rubin
My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out. View quote
Chris Brown
Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy. View quote
Marilu Henner
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows. View quote
Rachel Carson
Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Circumstances alter cases. View quote
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I was weak and pathetic and I couldn't control myself. An explanation, especially a bullshit one, doesn't alter the circumstances. I need to change, I have to change, and at this point, change is my only option, unless I am ready to die. All that matters is that I make myself something else and someone else for the future. View quote
James Frey
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely! (David Hockney)
Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued. View quote
David Ricardo
To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society. View quote
David Ricardo
Every perception of colour is an illusion.. ..we do not see colours as they really are. In our perception they alter one another. View quote
Josef Albers
Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould