Quotes About Alteration

adjustment is a must.

That's what life is. Adjustment.

There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I will bear them, because the alternative is too terrible. -Artemis Fowl, The Lost Colony

a little here, bends a little there. And far too often

All the other houses have been pulled out of the street like bad teeth.

I wasn't any person any more.

I had considered orchestrating 'The Long and Winding Road' but I decided against it. I therefore want it altered to these specifications: Strings, horns, voices and all added noises to be reduced in volume. Vocal and Beatle instrumentation to be brought up in volume. Harp to be removed completely at the end of the song and original piano notes to be substituted. Don't ever do it again. Signed, PAUL McCARTNEY c.c. Phil Spector, John Eastman

I believe it has an entire staff of seamstresses and tailors. We can have anything altered—anything at all. It's really no—

In fact, I have seen four kinds of weather in a single day.

My musical tastes change every week.

A tailor is a person's best friend as far as I'm concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.

They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful.

What do you think? More cheese? Less cheese? Different cheese?

last I looked appeared to be turning the place into a Marin County whorehouse.

I've changed." I didn't want to hear this. They never changed, they simply hid it better.

People don't vanish from one's life; they come back in disguise.

out of any world; each world is rimless. —Amy Leach, Things That Are She had always enjoyed waking people who were asleep; and indeed it is as great an alteration to the state of a fellow-creature that we can make short of killing them or giving birth to them. —Rebecca West, This Real Night

Everything is different and nothing is same in the universe."

Todas las experiencias se convierten en una señal química codificada que alterará la vida de tus células, ya sea mucho o poco, durante unos minutos o durante varios años.

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

The beetles Wick altered, or made from materials he'd stolen from the Company, didn't just teach when shoved in your ear; they could also rid you of memories and add memories. People who couldn't face the present shoved them into their ears so they could experience someone else's happier memories from long ago, from places that didn't exist anymore.

The machinery thus secured was divided between the arsenals at Richmond, Virginia, and Fayetteville, North Carolina, and, when repaired and put in working condition, supplied to some extent the want which existed in the South of means for the alteration and repair of old or injured arms, and finally contributed to increase the very scanty supply of arms with which our country was furnished when the war

He criticizes himself in front of others. When people are nice to him, he distances or somehow undermines the relationship. Alex tries to maintain the status quo. When the environment becomes too supportive, he alters the situation so he can go back to that comfortable state of shame and dejection. If he feels superior or equal for a moment, he somehow manages to return to a lesser position.

Without going into details, let's just say that there wasn't much left besides horns and hooves.