Quotes About Transformation

Over the past thirty years we have thrown all this away.

The most obvious symptom of the change came in the form of 'planning'.

one were seeking a symbolic moment when this transformation was accomplished, a hinge on which post-war Europe's self-understanding turned, it came in Paris on December 28th 1973 with the first Western publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. Reviewing the English translation in the Guardian, W. L. Webb wrote 'To live now and not to know this work is to be a kind of historical fool, missing a crucial part of the consciousness of the age.

La Primera Guerra Mundial destruyó la vieja Europa; la Segunda Guerra Mundial generó las condiciones para una nueva.

If you do what you have always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Clorinda fui, né sol qui spirto umano albergo in questa pianta rozza e dura, ma ciascun altro ancor, franco o pagano, che lassi i membri a piè de l'alte mura, astretto è qui da novo incanto e strano, non so s'io dica in corpo o in sepoltura.

I knew there was a minefield ahead of me and no way to avoid the bombs, and even if you didn't actually step on the bombs, you were already transformed by constantly looking out for them.

Margate's never been easy, always hard. 'If you want a dirty weekend, go to Margate,' I always say. You can be as dirty as you like. Van Gogh and Turner, Ronnie Biggs and the Krays all went there. Romans, Vikings, Hell's Angels, teds, mods, rockers and punks, they all fought there.

She felt the strangeness of recognizing a place and yet not knowing it, of having a similar tone as if nothing had changed, yet everything had changed and aged, including Violet herself.

I think I'll try crying and shouting and biting my way through. Maybe I can change something.

It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.

They were nothing more than people, by themselves. Even paired, any pairing, they would have been nothing more than people by themselves. But all together, they have become the heart and muscles and mind of something perilous and new, something strange and growing and great. Together, all together, they are the instruments of change.

Solvitur Ambulando.

I have crossed over, and that childhood is as far away and strange as something that happened to someone else in a land beyond the sea. That boy is not me, though I am what he became.

The things you lose do shape who you become. There's no getting around that. But the losses don't obliterate what came before.

When grief develops and grows, the suffering at the heart of it changes, too. It becomes less acute, less raw and fiery. I'm not sure it diminishes, but it somehow becomes diffused across the memories that surround the loss at the heart of it. It seems less concentrated, and therefore more bearable.

The butterfly danced on the flower.

God never convicts believers of sin in order to condemn them. God convicts us of sin to change us. He wants us to have a closer walk with Him. He wants us to get rid of this useless sin in our lives.

That's all right." Abby picked up the towelette and wiped Roisin's face for her. "When it's a guy problem, we all speak the same language. So your boyfriend's a bird," she said when Roisin's cheeks were tear-free. "It is kind of creepy, but once he changed back, he looked totally Italian.

Salta, y deja que te crezcan alas en el camino hacia abajo. Ray Bradbury

Podemos ver cómo una taza cae de la mesa y se rompe en pedazos, pero nunca podremos ver cómo una taza se recompone y vuelve a saltar a la mesa. Este aumento del desorden o entropía diferencia el pasado del futuro y de este modo otorga al tiempo una dirección. Stephen Hawking

Tiempo voraz, embótale al león la garra Y haz que la propia tierra sus crías embeba, al fiero tigre descolmilla y desquijarra y sepulta en su sangre a la fénix longeva. William Shakespeare, Soneto XIX

Cada época es una esfinge, que se precipita al abismo en cuanto se ha resuelto su enigma. Heinrich Heine

Decidme, pues, ¿cómo debería apreciar los encantos que un cielo para mí en un infierno transformaron?