Quotes About Transformation

of themselves. At least until the next glacier came through. Sloan looked up from his newspaper, apparently

But a man can't swim in the same river twice, because it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

From a squalid izba to a space capsule—log cabin to the stars. You have to give these people credit where it's due.

Brodie smiled. He said, "When shit happens, you turn it into fertilizer for your tree of knowledge.

The summer of '63, Keith reflected, had been called the last summer of American innocence

I stopped reading and stared round the room. There were the new curtains, the new shades on all the lamps, the deep new pile of the Indian carpet beneath my feet, the new loose cover of the chair that I was sitting in, the slightly different appearance of the wallpaper by the electric switch, the gleam of the new paint. I had not noticed any of them.

An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

The present predicaments of Africa are often not a matter of personal choice: they arise from a historical situation. Their solutions are not so much a matter of personal decision as that of a fundamental social transformation of the structures of our societies starting with a real break with imperialism and its internal ruling allies. Imperialism and its comprador alliances in Africa can never develop the continent.

Being is one thing; becoming aware of it is a point of arrival by an awakened consciousness and this involves a journey.

The sequence is clear: first the Glorious Revolution, then agricultural improvement, then imperial expansion, then industrial revolution.

In 1800 seven out of the world's ten biggest cities had still been Asian, and Beijing had still exceeded London in size. By 1900, largely as a result of the Industrial Revolution, only one of the biggest was Asian; the rest were European or American.

In all countries there was a torrent of what Paul Fussell has called 'high diction': a friend became a 'comrade', a horse became a 'steed', the enemy became the 'foe'.

Time sweeps everything along and can bring good as well as evil, evil as well as good.

And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things

For one change always leaves the toothing for another.

takes us the farther distance from the Old World to something new and revolutionary in human thought. That moral center, however, is hard to find with modern eyes. Locating it requires

There is nothing more to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its Success, than to take the lead in introduction of a new order of things.

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.

Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you regret I don't see

Once we have learned how to see the world, we have taken only one of the required steps. The point is to change it.

It has to get ugly before it gets pretty!

Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago.

I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.