Quotes About Alter

Sitting there, it is impossible to change your luck. But, you can always change the machine you are at!

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

You might find it fade, but its just another shade....

...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.

It's a bad plan that can't be changed.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.

Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.

I have always been a pupil of the great Bismarck, in that it is far better to try to anticipate and alter events rather than simply react to them.

We were, all of us, prisoners of our character, unable to alter our true inner natures. When we said we had changed, what had only really changed was our luck. Put us in the same circumstances as our previous folly and suddenly we'd revert, all of us, to what we were. That's what I believed

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

Feminist scholars rightly stress the importance of power in sexual conflict. It must be recognized, however, that men's motivations for power, status, and resources exist in part because women have preferred to mate with men who possess power, status, and resources. Neglecting this part of the causal origins of sexual conflict will impede efforts to alter it.

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but shifts continually and alters from year to year.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.