Quotes About Alteration

Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change form.

From then on, we were simply different people. Not new people; different.

were altered and aggrandised by enormous fantasy.

And my grandfather, lurching upright, made a resolve. Stood. Rolled cheroot. Stared across the lake. And was knocked forever into that middle place, unable to worship a God in whose existence he could not wholly disbelieve. Permanent alteration: a hole.

The outside air had altered her mood, from an unsettled elation to something within reach of embarrassment, even shame.

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

Magic is the art and science of forcing things to behave in ways that are not in their nature.

Only the direction of the treason had changed.

You put a mask on a person, something weird happens. Changes the way they act along with the way they look. Sometimes they don't seem like people at all no more, but something else.

It turns out that sometimes the future actually belongs to someone else.

I find by this, how much an author injures his works by altering them, even though they be improved in a poetical point of view. The first impression is readily received. We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.

I wish that Cecil had not turned so cynical about women. He has, for the second time, quite altered. Why will men have theories about women? I haven't any about men.

He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot or starve,kill or be killed,shelter or suffer,procreate or count for nothing-has clarified his thinking,purged him of politics and its constant search for compromise.

She defaced my fly. And I've never been the same since.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

you've undergone a total metamorphosis

There's eco-pragmatism, where you recognize, 'Yeah, we live on a planet that's permanently altered by humanity, and rather than seek to return to or preserve pure wilderness, we recognize that's an illusion, and we proceed under the new knowledge that we live, in fact, in a human-dominated planet.'

I never did, and I never will, thank any man for altering any one word of my compositions without my privity.

The one thing you don't want to do is go off and keep rewriting. If something's not quite right, it's often about modulating what's already there.

The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.

JANIE GETS STRANGER EVERY YEAR.

The moment you step into a landscape it becomes another one.