Quotes About Alteration

President Franklin Roosevelt failed in his effort to pack the Court in 1937, but in the midst of that battle the Court significantly altered its constitutional doctrine in a way that served to placate its opponents.

Guv," she said to Baron. "What do you know about how to …" She opened and clenched her hands. "How to make big shit go into something little?

What d'you know about making big shit little?

Don't bother much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behaviour.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.

Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly.

I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.

It's probably what I'm most interested in as a choreographer: how I can alter and shift and develop the structure of a piece and of the space.

One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have played is diametrically opposite to the one before it.

Doing different things is great. It's always good to change things up. If you do the same thing over and over, it can get boring.

If you weren't here, if you didn't live through the changes, if you didn't experience how the streets moved around at night or how people's personalities were subtly altered, if you didn't see the casual cruelty, the cheapening of human life, the way that easy stereotypes take hold of people... If you weren't there, you're never going to understand what it was like.

Transformation An alteration in the arena of context. You alter the way you are being to create results that are not currently possible. Transformation provides the creation of that which does not yet exist in the organization and its leaders—a new realm of possibility leading to a new realm of results.

Then let me ask you something, Terry. In terms of the whole situation, if you could miraculously have your relationship with your boss altered, what would you have it be?

Pyrite was gone. Standing in her place … was Hailstorm.

If there was no change, there would be no universe.

Most often, the reason something is on your mind is that you want it to be different than it currently is

It had forced him into being a different person, as though a stranger's personality and attendant quirks had been superimposed over his own. But now the stranger's footprint was Decker. I am now the stranger. I'm a stranger in my own body.

Stealing and giving odor. Enough, no more. 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

Only look up clear: To alter favour, ever is to fear.

But doth must suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.

O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!

Attacking the ostensible paradox of altering previously recorded historical events, Robert Heinlein's short story All You Zombies remains the ultimate, absurdly extreme, example for most devotees of this genre.1 Traversing the

Everything changes into something else, turns into some version of what it was before.