Quotes About Transformation

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

The greatest reformation should be among those who have been the greatest sinners.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

...with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice

O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils"

Every piece of business strategy… must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of creative destruction.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

They departed in the form of white smoke, rose easily upward, waved their hands in parting, and viewed with pity all those who remained behind. Then they danced gaily in celebration of their new freedom, before disintegrating into the air.

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.

In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

Perhaps this creature had once been a human, but his lust for power had been so great that he had done the things needed to transform him into a monster bear.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

An enormous force bends all lines into circles.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planets—a connotation of moon and tides—the association of water less subtle, as when driftwood pieces make up a proscenium to set off the dazzling white of sea foam and billowy cloud crystallized in a pipe of fancy.

Be less than what you are so that you can become more.

Be less than what you are so that you can become more." ? Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Sacrifice

When Golgoth finally left this place, these fragments would thaw, just as Morgan's had. I had to acknowledge that Grimalkin was dead.

I have become the mother of death.

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.