Quotes About Alter

I commend rather some diet for certain seasons, than frequent use of physic, except it be grown into a custom. For those diets alter the body more, and trouble it less.

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid.

I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face.

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

want to change history?" Luke made a stab at humor.

People are saying: 'Look, there are times when her expression is so severe that it quite alters her. Her beauty changes to... It's hard to interpret. Is it an expression of ferocity or something quite different–compassion?

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

Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.

Soundless echoes - no voice, Sadness doth keep thee at bay, Stagnation rises as ebb & flow, Nothing alters, Unless you choose to break away.

This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something changes in myself, not so much my inclinations or my tastes as my very blood, as if a subtle disease had been injected to alter its course, its density and nature. To live around a true poet is to feel your blood run thin, to dream a paradise of anemia, and to hear, in your veins, the rustle of tears.

How, then, are we to class this strange amalgam of criticism and credulity? What purpose can it serve? To whom will it appeal? Whose beliefs will it alter even by a hair's breadth?

Art cannot become worn out; from change to change it will alter its type, but each type will be beautiful, and none will be exhaustive.

They could not alter your feelings: for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare the utmost detail of everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.

And yet to the people of only two generations ago, this would not have seemed all-important, because they were not attempting to alter history.

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

But I do not want to be a widow! declared Elinor. I am afraid it is too late in the day to alter that. said Carlyon. Besides, if you had known my cousin better you would have wanted to be a widow, Nicky assured her.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

I got reckless baby, put you in your place. Next time, maybe rearrange your face.

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

I desire to tamper with the jury law. I wish to alter it as to put a premium on intelligence and character, and close the jury box against idiots, blacklegs, and people who do not read newspapers.

Only the carrying out stamps the resolve; till then, it is always a mere intention that can be altered; it exists only in reason, in the abstract. Only in reflection are willing and acting different; in reality they are one.