| "There are two ways of meeting difficulties You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them." »Phyllis Bottome |
| "God cannot alter the past, but historians can." »Samuel Butler |
| "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Life is like and ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter." »Sharon Salzberg |
| "That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it." »Terence |
| "Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it." »Ayn Rand |
| "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind." »William James |
| "The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind." »James Truslow Adams |
| "Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis." »Martha Beck |
| "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 Quincy Adams |
| "Facts are stubborn things and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence." »John Adams |
| "Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." »John Adams |
| "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." »H. G. Wells |
| "History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity." »James A. Forude |
| "Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde |
| "You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it." »James Arthur Baldwin |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |