Top 39 Modifies Quotes
#1. It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.
Henry Louis Gates
#2. As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.
Jane Addams
#3. changes the performance of the propulsion system compared to other types of thrusters and modifies the conventional way of calculating some of the thruster parameters, such as specific impulse and efficiency
Anonymous
#4. A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.
John Dewey
#5. An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete ... Its motor consequences are what clinch it ...
William James
#7. The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
Jorge Luis Borges
#8. The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.
Philip Guston
#9. But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer reef is the final southern boundary of the North American continent.
Louis Agassiz
#10. Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside-aspect of rustiness and antiquity.
Mark Twain
#11. The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.
A.S. Byatt
#12. The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
Claude Bernard
#13. A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely.
E. M. Forster
#14. When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.
Ben Marcus
#15. Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James
#16. Since the heart and behavior are so closely linked, whatever modifies behavior inevitably trains the heart.
Tedd Tripp
#17. Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.
Jack Levin
#18. Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.
John Dewey
#19. Isn't it true that philosophy is a barrier? For sure it screens and modifies every bit of information that the mind allows to enter.
Debasish Mridha
#20. Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.
C.S. Lewis
#21. The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
Jorge Luis Borges
#22. Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.
Stephen King
#23. Nature takes the decision first, man agrees, reconciles, modifies, refutes, contradicts etc., subsequently. It means the application of reason, the discretionary power of a man, only happens afterwards!
Thiruman Archunan
#24. Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.
Ludwik Fleck
#25. You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.
S.M. Stirling
#27. To be presented, Babs for Bim bushi? Of courts and with enticers. Up, girls, and at him! Alone? Alone what? I mean, our strifestirrer, does she do fleurty winkies with herself. Pussy is never alone, (...)
James Joyce
#29. If the future looks dark, all you have to do is to find a candle and carry it with you! If it looks bright, the best thing to do is still to carry that candle, because the future can always create a different story! Always carry a candle by your side!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. Thank God she wasn't still hanging out in her underpants.
Julie James
#31. He did have to flush the toilet though, since I hadn't gotten to that yet. I had only peed, otherwise I might have been mortified. Best friend or not, shit was still shit.
Scarlett Dawn
#32. Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.
Adam Ross
#33. Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.
Justin Amash
#34. Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory.
Denis Waitley
#35. Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.
Ravi Zacharias
#36. I never realized how much of the pleasure of dining out is watching people, otherwise it feels like ordering in with better utensils.
Emma McLaughlin
#37. He only wanted to use me for something. Everyone wanted to use you for some purpose.
Ralph Ellison
#38. Some vampires wouldn't react if you shoved a rosary down their pants, though I wouldn't recommend testing the theory.
Molly Harper
#39. And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain is patent.
Arnold Bennett
