Quotes About Transformation

I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

When I was young and the empire was beginning to disintegrate, the idea was absolutely unbelievable, particularly to children who'd been taught that the sun never set... that's what all my books are about, the end of empire.

The monster that NXT has grown into is nothing short of unbelievable.

If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

Only God can change a season of war into a season of peace. Would you agree with me in prayer for peace?

Four guys go out and four guys go in like the storm troopers in the Star War movies.

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

Every war has turning points and every person too.

I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.

...the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.

From defilement can come much wisdom

You've been so used to fighting Wars with a gun in your hand that you forget to put it down. Not every fight requires a weapon of some kind, and not everything is a fight.

Before the war, she'd never have gone out in the rain and happily stood in it. Now, it was a reminder that she was alive...

Give me a book and I may change the world, give me a weapon and there will be no world to change.

Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry.