Quotes about Altered

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. Votes: 3

It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered. Votes: 1

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. Votes: 1

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered. Votes: 1

The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. Votes: 1

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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.' Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Each one's destiny cannot be altered. Votes: 0

An irrelevance, and your life's altered. Votes: 0

Not every relationship can be altered to fit. Votes: 0

It is a bad plan that cannot be altered. Votes: 0

My mood altered and the pain turned to rage. Votes: 0

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another. Votes: 0

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience. Votes: 0

Everybody starts with a clean slate only altered by unnecessary hate. Votes: 0

I thought I was being loved because I was being altered. Votes: 0

Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern. Votes: 0

History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself. Votes: 0

The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion. Votes: 0

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits Votes: 0

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered. Votes: 0

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered. Votes: 0

Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered. Votes: 0

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Votes: 0

I have no desire to drink anymore. I just don't want to feel altered. Votes: 0

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing. Votes: 0

Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble. Votes: 0

Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. Votes: 0

Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation. Votes: 0

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture. Votes: 0

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment. Votes: 0

This is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed. Votes: 0

Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. Votes: 0

The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change lives. Votes: 0

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places. Votes: 0

My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me. Votes: 0

Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading. Votes: 0

An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds. Votes: 0

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome. Votes: 0

I think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry. Votes: 0

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act. Votes: 0

Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law. Votes: 0

When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states. Votes: 0

The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation. Votes: 0

One destructive mind-set that must be altered in our society is the thought that work is a curse. Votes: 0

It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered. Votes: 0

Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly Votes: 0

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered. Votes: 0

Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury. Votes: 0

To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs. Votes: 0

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat. Votes: 0

Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury Votes: 0

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered. Votes: 0

It's odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever. Votes: 0

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker. Votes: 0

Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse. Votes: 0

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me. Votes: 0

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered. Votes: 0

When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value . Votes: 0

On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done Votes: 0

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. Votes: 0

Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money. Votes: 0

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius. Votes: 0

When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered. Votes: 0

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event. Votes: 0

No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have. Votes: 0

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous. Votes: 0

Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both. Votes: 0

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition? Votes: 0

We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two. Votes: 0

We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two. Votes: 0

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone. Votes: 0

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges. Votes: 0

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. Votes: 0

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition. Votes: 0

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered. Votes: 0

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day. Votes: 0

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. Votes: 0

Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered. Votes: 0

Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct. Votes: 0

Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition. Votes: 0

It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered behaviour from the public. Votes: 0

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs. Votes: 0

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances. Votes: 0

There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered it; that is a very pleasurable feeling. Votes: 0

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time? Votes: 0

..And songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic. Votes: 0

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be. Votes: 0

You're very short, aren't you?" She smirked at Petunia"And you've got a nose like a stoat," Petunia replied"But at least I can always have my gowns altered. Votes: 0

Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more. Votes: 0

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery. Votes: 0

You're very short, aren't you?" She smirked at Petunia. "And you've got a nose like a stoat," Petunia replied. "But at least I can always have my gowns altered. Votes: 0

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech. Votes: 0

In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government. Votes: 0

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals. Votes: 0

A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions. Votes: 0

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen. Votes: 0

When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most was the realisation that death was not the end! Votes: 0

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing. Votes: 0

Many genetically "altered" fish escape from the confines of the crowded floating concentration camps to mingle and mate with their wild fish cousins, causing horrible and irreversible damage to wild species. Votes: 0

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. Votes: 0

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing." Votes: 0

3D really altered the way I shot the movie completely, and it was exciting because, after 20 years of filmmaking, I felt like I was making my first movie, all over again. Votes: 0

I'd heard theories. Destruction of forests had altered pressure zones. Global warming made for stronger storms. Chemtrails indicated government manipulation of the weather. God punished the family and neighbors of idolaters. Votes: 0

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered. Votes: 0

K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute. Votes: 0

I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by it - and it is important to be. Votes: 0

Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way. Votes: 0

There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and turn it loose again, gently altered for having known us. Votes: 0

Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish us to believe, but a problem-recognizing and -accepting being. Votes: 0

Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate with someone who goes into very strong states of altered consciousness. Votes: 0

Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and, if they don't get it, have a tendency to initiate counterrevolution. Votes: 0

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands. Votes: 0

But once in a while the odd thing happens Once in a while the dream comes true And the whole pattern of life is altered Once in a while, the moon turns blue Votes: 0

I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine. Votes: 0

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it. Votes: 0

With our rarely changing temperaments strong emotions can alter us in permanent ways. But he said I did not need to worry about that part "“ you had already altered me so completely. Votes: 0

There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge. Votes: 0

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered... Votes: 0

The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people. Votes: 0

Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them? Votes: 0

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it. Votes: 0

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation's history. Votes: 0

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me. Votes: 0

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story. Votes: 0

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures. Votes: 0

Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness. Votes: 0

Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them. Votes: 0

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love? Votes: 0

Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth. Votes: 0

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes. Votes: 0

We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it. Votes: 0

To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention. Votes: 0