Quotes About Alteration

We've become a nation of Frankensteins, and our monster is us. With everyone working so hard at altering their facades, we no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection.

Things around here have deviated from the usual

Both of us were spared, in body at least, by the stone walls of our different imprisonments, and altered in spirit, in ways we're still struggling to understand.

So much human effort went into alteration of non-essential components

vicissitudes

mutatis mutandis

The widespread notion that stories never should be changed but should be repeated without alteration every time is an innovation of modern written cultures.

Some believers, as though from a drinking bout, go so far as to oppose themselves and alter the original text of the gospel three or four or several times over, and change its character to enable them to deny difficulties in the face of criticism. (Against Celsus 2, 27)

sometimes the smallest addition makes all the difference.

Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed.

Una información suficientemente novedosa transmitida verbalmente podría alterar el paradigma semántico, episódico y procedimental simultáneamente, aunque la totalidad de esos efectos podría no manifestarse durante años -y, no infrecuentemente, durante generaciones.

earth shall err concerning them, and they shall be altered from all their ways, they shall err and take them to be gods.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. I've always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing and becoming someone else. Even if you don't share that obsession, I can't recommend this book highly enough.

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.

There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible.

John Dickinson's vastly influential Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer, which warned, "A free people can never be too quick in observing, nor too firm in opposing the beginnings of alteration either in form or reality, respecting institutions formed for their security. . . . Servitude may be slipped upon us, under the sanction of usual and respectable terms.

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anyone in horror's path is irrevocably altered.

she had to give up her independence and submit completely? wasn't that being like a male chauvinist? Dominique felt like an altered version of herself after a while, her mind foggy, emotions primal, senses heightened she enjoyed the sex and affection – outside in the fields when summer arrived, wantonly naked in the heat, unworried about anyone coming across them, what Nzinga called Dominique's sexual healing, as if she'd

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

He has added inches and fullness to his beard since his last visit. I'll say no more.

One event sometimes had infinite ramifications and could change the whole settings of a person's life.