#alter

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all; they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. It is a pity they are not knocked on the head at once, before they reach Admiral Baldwin's age. ↗

— Jane Austen

#humor #jane #persuasion #sea #sir-walter

The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#altered #always #angry #anything #come

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant. ↗

— Paul Berg

#concerns #creating #environment #evolution #fears

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. ↗

— Phyllis Bottome

#altered #come #interference #must #neither

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

#better #children #environment #imagine #our

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world. ↗

— David Bruce

#been #believing #centuries #fact #fundamental

I was never able to convince myself that there was a cost-free alternative course, as from 1961, or that any of the different strategies since proposed, especially those involving stronger military action, would have made sense. ↗

— William P. Bundy

#action #alternative #any #convince #course

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

#audience #been #classic #cult #embraced

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity. ↗

— Lois Capps

#alternative #creativity #develop #efficiency #energy

I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#basic #been #clause #contracts #first