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Quotes About Alteration

Pensó que cada recuerdo evocado debe violentar en alguna medida sus orígenes. Como en un juego. El juego del teléfono. Más vale ser parco. Lo que uno altera mediante el recuerdo tiene sin embargo una realidad, sea o no conocida.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Makes me want to tweak reality's gamma slider.
~ Cory Doctorow
But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?
~ Walter Lippmann
Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.
~ Warren St. John
making her frown. He quickly shifted back to mist
~ Charlotte Boyett-Compo
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
~ Hans Kung
One way to unify things that appear different is to show that the apparent difference is due to the difference in the perspective of the observers. A distinction that was previously considered absolute becomes relative. This kind of unification is rare and represents the highest form of scientific creativity. When it is achieved, it radically alters our view of the world.
~ Lee Smolin
Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.
~ Lemony Snicket
I sometimes daydream about becoming somebody else. Anybody else. Not me. I imagine how I might lose myself, my old self.
~ James Preller
metamorphosis
~ Jan Moran
I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.
~ Jane Austin
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
~ Fran Lebowitz
The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only change forms. The
~ Timothy Ferriss
I don't like the same old thing all the time.
~ Cobi Jones
My purpose is to tell of bodies that have been changed into shapes of different kinds.
~ Ovid
I am compelled to speak of metamorphoses
~ Ovid
Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed Into different bodies.
~ Ovid
What a difference that made!
~ Dale Carnegie
M. Executive, I have explained the variables that require an alteration in our battle plan. Shall I begin this briefing again?
~ Dan Simmons
was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions
~ Daniel Defoe
It was some time, indeed, before it came to this, for, but I know not by what ill fate guided, everything went wrong with us afterwards, and that which was worse, my husband grew strangely altered, forward, jealous, and unkind, and I was as impatient of bearing his carriage, as the carriage was unreasonable and unjust.
~ Daniel Defoe
You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
~ Oscar Wilde
Folks are funny. They can't stick to one way of thinking or doing anything unless they get a new reason for doing it ever so often.
~ William Faulkner