A Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Frances Hodgson Burnett
American - Novelist
November 24, 1849 - October 29, 1924

Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

Phyllis Bottome

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #? fact .

Charles Spurgeon

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 Adams

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: nor is the law less stable than the fact.

John Adams

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.

Peter Ackroyd

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

Fiona Apple

To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.

Vincent Van Gogh

Politicians cannot alter trends.

Harold Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Chogyam Trungpa

Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

Aesop

Don't worry about things you cannot alter

Catherine the Great

Hope and fear cannot alter the season.

Chogyam Trungpa

The last thing the world needs is another boring person or another boring brand, so embrace all the things that make you different. Alter your clothes all you want, but don't you dare alter your inner freak - she's got your back as much as I do.

Sophia Amoruso

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