Top 430 Altered Quotes & Sayings

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

I love all these things where proportions have been changed and altered.

To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.

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

Covid-19 has altered world history.

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.

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

Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.

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

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

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

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.

When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

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

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.

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

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

That we have altered the dog genetically is well understood; it is hardly known how they changed us.

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

It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.

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

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

A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the scientific method throughout the world, the probability of war drops to zero. The probability of human suffering disappears. Deprivation, poverty, crime - all those things tend to disappear because there's no basis. I'm strictly concerned with the environment that people are raised in and if that environment is altered, so will behaviors be altered.

the heart of religion is not altered states but altered traits of character. For me, then, the test of a substance's religious worth or validity is not what kind of far-out experience it can produce, but is the life improved by its use? That's the test. Now, on that score, if you remove the "religious cocoon," the experiences don't seem to have much in the way of discernible, traceable effects.

When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

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

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

My mood altered and the pain turned to rage.

Not every relationship can be altered to fit.

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

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door to revelation. When the first great distances of space were conquered by technology, a camera altered the human perspective on the Earth as radically as Galileo did when he proved the sun was the center of the universe. The ecology movement was born from a photographically altered consciousness.

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.

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

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

Losing two cousins who were really close to me altered my perspective on life massively.

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

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

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

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

I've always been into thrifting. I'm a fan of finding unique pieces and having them tailored or altered.

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

Each one's destiny cannot be altered.

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

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

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