Quotes About Transformation

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

Man is on earth as in an egg.

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don't believe that it's when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he's able to do them, and that he does them well.

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

Man is a degeneration of what he was.

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.