Quotes About Transformation

If Arsene Wenger came down to League Two he would have to adapt, he couldn't work in the same way he works at Arsenal.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

Sure, I'm ashamed of a lot of the things I did, but at the same time, I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't gone through those experiences.

In short, your good points will become your faults, your faults will be vices, and your virtues crime.

Love is a maker of false coin, continually changing copper pennies into gold-pieces, and sometimes turning its real gold into copper.

they should have seen that every institution has its climacteric periods, when words lose their old meanings, and ideas reappear in a new guise, and the whole conditions of politics wear a changed aspect, while the underlying realities undergo no essential alteration.

What hopes must it raise in a young creature who, in the midst of sordid elements, had pined for a life of elegance! A sunbeam had fallen into the prison. Augustine was suddenly in love.

Everything can be excused and justified in an age which has transformed vice into virtue and virtue into vice.

Lucien ne reconnut pas sa Louise dans cette chambre froide, sans soleil, à rideaux passés, dont le carreau frotté semblait misérable, où le meuble était usé, de mauvais goût, vieux ou d'occasion. Il est en effet certaines personnes qui n'ont plus ni le même aspect ni la même valeur, une fois séparées des figures, des choses, des lieux qui leur servent de cadre. Les

You should not expect a monster to change, even at the end of a fairy tale. For in a children's story, the monster must be killed. If he remains alive, his nature will be limned. There is no gentling of an abomination.

Women like to perform prodigies, break rocks, and soften natures which seem of iron.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

there is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy. Endymion Leer

I'm not the same as you, father," he said quietly. And then once more he was shaken by great sobs, and screamed out in a voice of anguish, "I have eaten fairy fruit!

A class struggling to assert itself, to discover its true shape, which lies hidden, as does the statue in the marble, in the hard, resisting material of life itself, be different from the same class when chisel and mallet have been laid aside, and it has actually become what it had so long been struggling to be.

It's hard to believe that a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. They don't have anything at all in common. But I guess it's just as strange that a kid turns into an adult. I never want to be like a grown-up. They don't have much fun. Greta and I are planning to live next door to each other when we grow up, and raise horses and dogs and keep a few cats. I guess we'll have to marry men who like animals.

Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones

They change their clime, not their disposition, who run across the sea.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

I am not what I was in the reign of the good Cinara. Forbear, cruel mother of sweet loves.

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.

Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.