Quotes About Alteration

It's amazing how people can change behind closed doors.

I have to wonder if his mouth has been altered to make him more appealing. If so, it was a waste of time and money, because he's not appealing at all.

Robin hasn't got a big nose - but I can soon arrange that.

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world.

It's never too late to change your luck

No human being has sufficient foresight to build plans which need no alteration or change.

mostly cosmetic variations

When you drop a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out, changing all the water in the pool. The ripples hit the shore and rebound, bumping into one another, breaking each other apart. In some small way, the pond is never the same again.

Vurawn was no more. In his place now stood Thrawn.

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

Everywhere a buffalo fell," said Switters, "a monster sprang up in its place.

Not hating him is not enough; liking, loving him is not useful. I have to alter things. I have to alter things. I have to be a shadow who wishes him well, mine the smokes of the dead left over from their lives.

This slide of people [refugees] has freighted the concept of citizenship and altered our perceptions of space - public and private. The strain has been marked by a plethora of hyphenated designations of national identity.

He couldn't help but give in to the occasional temptation to replay past events in his mind, altering them, changing them from cruel to comfortable, from sad to happy, from unfair to accommodating. Anything was possible in his imagination. Any ending. If only thinking it could make it so.

She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality.

I do. My time is done." Jaqen passed a hand down his face from forehead to chin, and where it went he changed. His cheeks grew fuller, his eyes closer; his nose hooked, a scar appeared on his right cheek where no scar had been before. And when he shook his head, his long straight hair, half red and half white, dissolved away to reveal a cap of tight black curls.

Think of that — what little things change the world's history...

There is nothing hot that will not get cold.

With a few words you cut slices out of lives. No matter how they were put back together later, they were never the same. Once pieces were missing from the whole, the pattern was forever altered.

But the ignition did, in fact, occur. And it changed everything.

A little weariness'll change a lot of things.

And I must borrow every changing shapeTo find expression.

Is it better for Marco to have his brain chemistry altered than for Ana to alter hers?

I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.