Alter Quotes - page 3

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons. (Chogyam Trungpa)
The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe - whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it. View quote
Sean MacBride
You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology. View quote
Bjarke Ingels
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception. View quote
John Piper
If you really want to know, I'd rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing's done now, of course, and I can't alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left. View quote
J.M.G. Le Clézio
Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells. View quote
Lian Hearn
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living. View quote
Ellen Glasgow
Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions] that has been submitted to the imperial government as well as to this house and which we speak of here as a treaty. And that there may be no doubt about our position in regard to that document we say, question it you may, reject it you may, or accept it you may, but alter it you may not. View quote
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways. View quote
William H. McNeill
The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time. (Annabelle Wallis)
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. View quote
Allen Klein
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do. View quote
Arthur Boyd
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government. View quote
Cal Thomas
So a lot of me is still a little kid, and I think that kind of helps alter my sense of reality - it makes me able to just become Belle every single night. View quote
Christy Carlson Romano
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change. View quote
Daniel Keys Moran
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason. View quote
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way. View quote
Lindy Booth
Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future. View quote
Max McKeown
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. (Phyllis Bottome)
I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored. View quote
Paul Lynde
I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work. View quote
Robert Powell
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. View quote
Sharon Salzberg
The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved. View quote
Wilhelm Ostwald