Alter

Famous quotes containing the word alter:

“I think we ought to be able to alter the whole system—but not by bullying, not because one lot wants what the other has got.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)