“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”

“There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

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

Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist

“The eye altering, alters all.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“It was quite dark when he went by the towers of Tor, where archers shoot ivory arrows at strangers lest any foreigner should alter their laws, which are bad, but not to be altered by mere aliens.”

Lord Dunsany (1878–1957) Irish writer and dramatist

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved”

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

“All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.”

Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist

“It is for the legislature to alter the law if Parliament in its wisdom thinks an alteration desirable.”

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten (1830–1913) Anglo-Irish rower, barrister, politician and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina