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Altered social conditions may remove certain ailments and deformities in existing society. But the new and more beautiful society will not be formed exclusively - or even mainly - by improved conditions, but above all by more perfect human beings. -- Ellen Key
It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered. -- Fred Durst
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. -- Francis Bacon
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered. -- George Sand
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. -- Robert Gottlieb
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within. -- Phyllis Bottome
We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched. -- David Suzuki
I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater. -- Jennifer Damiano
A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. -- Emily Greene Balch
I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.' -- Marian Keyes
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. -- Emily Bronte
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. -- Alan Turing
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay. -- Moby
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe. -- E. Stanley Jones
However revolutionary it may be, the Internet still hasn't altered the basic law of human communication: Being nice to your interlocutors is a good way to start any negotiations, particularly, when being hostile is an open invitation for a cyber-fight. -- Evgeny Morozov
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. -- Harlan Coben
Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered. -- Warren Farrell
Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered. -- Wilfrid Laurier
North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best. -- Michael Kors
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version. -- Richard Dawkins
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche. -- Michael Eric Dyson
For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies. -- Harbhajan Singh
Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere. -- Caitlin Rose
One of the best ways to change is to act as if you are the person you want to become. When you behave as if you are a different person, you change on a very basic level - even your physiology changes. When actors and actresses perform, their body chemistry is altered by the roles they play. -- Bernie Siegel
The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise. -- Alan Moore
As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time. -- Joe Rogan
Each one's destiny cannot be altered. -- Zhuangzi
An irrelevance, and your life's altered. -- Aldous Huxley
Not every relationship can be altered to fit. -- Amy Dickinson
It is a bad plan that cannot be altered. -- Publilius Syrus
My mood altered and the pain turned to rage. -- Ariel Sharon
Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another. -- John Paul Caponigro
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience. -- Horace
Everybody starts with a clean slate only altered by unnecessary hate. -- Melanie Chisholm
I thought I was being loved because I was being altered. -- Michael Ondaatje
Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern. -- Wilhelm Reich
History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself. -- Haruki Murakami
The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion. -- David A. Bednar
The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits -- Huston Smith
Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered. -- W. H. Auden
If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered. -- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered. -- Ellen Hopkins
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. -- Michael Eric Dyson
I have no desire to drink anymore. I just don't want to feel altered. -- Alison Rosen
It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing. -- John Lyly
Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble. -- Mark Twain
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. -- Ovid
Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation. -- Wayne Huizenga
The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture. -- Mike Huckabee
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment. -- Bertrand Russell
This is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed. -- Lavinia Greenlaw
Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. -- John Dryden
The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change lives. -- Thomas S. Monson
Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places. -- John Ruskin
My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me. -- Susan Schneider
Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading. -- Brendan Sullivan
An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds. -- Jane Hirshfield
Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome. -- Michel de Montaigne
I think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry. -- Iggy Pop
Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act. -- Stephen King
Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law. -- Robert Bork
When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states. -- Huston Smith
The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation. -- Peter Yarrow
One destructive mind-set that must be altered in our society is the thought that work is a curse. -- Sunday Adelaja
It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela
Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly -- Claude C. Hopkins
as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered. -- Alain de Botton
Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury. -- George W. Bush
To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs. -- Bernie Siegel
He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat. -- Cormac McCarthy
Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury -- George W. Bush
Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered. -- David Edelstein
It's odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever. -- Bill Holm
For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker. -- Anne Lamott
Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse. -- Jonathan Swift
I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me. -- Olympia Dukakis
The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered. -- Stefan Molyneux
When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value . -- Sun Bin
On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money. -- Tyrone Hayes
Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius. -- T. S. Eliot
When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered. -- D. H. Lawrence
If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event. -- Joseph Hume
No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have. -- Huston Smith
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous. -- Carl Andre
Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both. -- John Paul Caponigro
If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition? -- T.H. White
We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone. -- Simon Van Booy
Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges. -- Umberto Eco
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. -- Abdallah II
The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition. -- Ralph Abernathy
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered. -- Charles Rosen
By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day. -- Andy Andrews
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. -- Abdallah II
Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered? -- Ellen Hopkins
To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence. -- Dan Hill
I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now! -- Paul Tillich
The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing program. -- Bryant McGill
Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor? -- Ellen Kushner
The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience. -- Pankaj Mishra
Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin. -- Frans Lanting
What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside. -- Gaspar Noe
All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues. -- Jay Weatherill
Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning. -- Pope Gregory XVI
God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered. -- Paulo Coelho
I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered. -- Moshe Sharett
Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt. -- Salvatore J. Cordileone
Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington. -- Yitzhak Rabin
We need to move beyond asking what drug will treat the symptoms, and instead ask what mechanism creates altered neurochemical or neurobiological function or systemic physiological change. -- Jeffrey Bland
In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth. -- Taryn Simon
After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction. -- Joseph Beuys
Writing chases after the senses, and conveys them in an altered form. When it is done well, the senses come alive in a new and captured form. -- Susan Minot
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go. -- A.L. Kennedy
A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward. -- Charles Edison

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