Quotes with alter

  • With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

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  • Benjamin Franklin Energy and persistence alter all things.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • William James The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Arthur Boyd 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
    Australian painter (1920 - 1999)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bobby Fischer Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • William Shakespeare Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
    Much ado about nothing (1598)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Oscar Wilde Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Butler God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Allen Klein Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Ben Jonson If he were
    To be made honest by an act of parliament
    I should not alter in my faith of him.
    The Devil Is an Ass Act IV, scene 1.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bruno Tonioli In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • George Eliot In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • William Frederick Book Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
    William Frederick Book
    American psychologist and professor of psychology
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  • William James Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Confucius Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • T. S. Eliot Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Lord Acton Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • James Allen 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
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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