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Quotes About Transformation

the ideas of ravacious herds of feral domesticated housepets and oversized insects not only taking over the abandoned homes of relocated Americans but actually setting up house and keeping them in model repair and impressive equity
~ David Foster Wallace
The dignity of a man risen by will from the ashes of Withdrawal and now on the upswing and with places to go and potentially considerate Canadians to see.
~ David Foster Wallace
The truth will set you free, but not until it's done with you.' The
~ David Foster Wallace
Step into the skin and disappear.
~ David Foster Wallace
It's a pivotal, it's a seminal, religious day when you get to both hear and feel your destiny at the same moment.
~ David Foster Wallace
You can be shaped, or you can be broken.
~ David Foster Wallace
We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed. —Frank Bidart, "Borges and I
~ David Foster Wallace
we get old like animals. We get claws, the shape of our face is the shape of our skull, our lips retreat back from big teeth like we're baring to snarl. Sharp, snarling, old: who should wonder at how nobody cares if I hurt, except another snarler?
~ David Foster Wallace
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
~ William Law
Siccome ti sono amico, ti risparmio le vaccate. Vuoi sapere da dove vengono i mangiabestie. Stammi a sentire, allora. I mangiabestie non si trovano. Si creano.
~ Unknown
Dalam pesona persahabatan, orang yang biasanya tidak menonjolkan diri bisa menjadi berani, yang pemalu menjadi percaya diri, yang pemalas menjadi giat, yang tidak sabar dan banyak gerak menjadi hati-hati dan tenang.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
This abattement and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
I can see myself still myself all along the way I have gone. - Lady Abundance
~ William Morris
Love, who changest all, change me nevermore! Love, who changest all, change my sorrow sore!
~ William Morris
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into hey nonny, nonny. Sing no more ditties, sing no more Of dumps so dull and heavy. The fraud of men was ever so Since summer first was leafy. Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into hey, nonny, nonny.
~ William Shakespeare
Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn'd away my former self; So will I those that kept me company.
~ William Shakespeare
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.
~ William Shakespeare
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
~ William Shakespeare
Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?
~ William Shakespeare
The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.
~ William Shakespeare
My drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.
~ William Shakespeare
I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
~ William Shakespeare
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!
~ William Shakespeare