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

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

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
Arthur Boyd

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
Iain Banks

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

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

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

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
Jack Schwartz

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

Hope and fear cannot alter the season.
Chogyam Trungpa

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

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

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.
Heinrich Himmler

I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did.
William Devane

I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.
Charisma Carpenter

I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.
Paul Lynde

I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
D. W. Griffith

I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.
Donald Johanson

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
Zoe Lofgren

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since.
Boyd Rice