#modified

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence. ↗

— Edward Forbes

#approach #become #deeper #descend #either

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#dead #guts #living #man #modified

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#consecutive #instead #lifetime #modified #probably

Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#also #bulgaria #countries #declare #development

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#concrete #cyclic #each #entire #form

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#definitely #fascism #fascist #first #form

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#before #friends #habits #i #i am

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone. ↗

— Richard von Weizsaecker

#cannot #case #coming #guilty #modified