Quotes about Modify
The church has not been given authority to make commandments; it is the duty of the church to obey the commandments already made. It is not the prerogative nor the privilege of any church to modify, minimize or in any way obscure . . . any commandment, of Jesus Christ.8
- Mark Dever
If you're riding a dead horse… dismount.
- Charles Martin
Even a language won't stand still.
- Barbara Kingsolver
As philosopher of science Karl Popper has emphasized, a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation. Each time new experiments are observed to agree with the predictions, the theory survives and our confidence in it is increased; but if ever a new observation is found to disagree, we have to abandon or modify the theory.
- Stephen Hawking
Only in childhood do books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life, we admire, we are entertained, we may modify some views we already hold, but we are more likely to find in books merely a confirmation of what is in our minds already.
- Graham Greene
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
- George Eliot
Amend your ways and your doings.
- Anonymous
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to have changed often.
- Winston Churchill
The individual is not a cog in a monstrous machine; it is within his power to modify the very laws which imprison him and the very relationship maintained by the Judge with the accused and witnesses. If it is true, as the Baal Shem says, that it is possible for man to hide the light of dawn emanating from the forest simply by shielding his eyes with his hands, still it is no less true that he can rediscover it by merely moving his hands.
- Elie Wiesel
It's a bad plan that can't be changed.
- Publilius Syrus