Alter Quotes

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, History, Small

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams

May, Cannot, Whatever

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

Fashion, Months, Six

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

Government, Political, System

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

Life, Greatest, Human

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.
Charlie Sheen

Time, Rock, Help

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James

Mind, Human, Lives

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
William James

Life, Thinking, Altering

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Soren Kierkegaard

Love, Beloved, Alters

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot

Different, Year, Emotions

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust

Time, Changes, Image

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Benjamin Disraeli

Change, Opinions, Characters

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler

God, Past, Cannot

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Lord Acton

Change, Moral, Fall

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.
Kobe Bryant

Ego, Basketball, Black

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
James Allen

Life, Him, Thoughts

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson

Women, Great, Men

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

Someone, Passion, Else

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
William Law

Live, Impossible, Another

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

Life, Attitude, Mind

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
Allen Klein

Humor, Help, Situation

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Lee Iacocca

Mind, Greatest, Human

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
Mencius

Stupid, Him, Sense

My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.
Chris Brown

Life, Love, Great

Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.
Simon Mainwaring

Good, Hope, Powerful

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Life, Religion, Able

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
Cal Thomas

Money, Government, Others

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Time, Nice, Book

Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.
Marilu Henner

Food, Brain, Small

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