Quotes About Transformation

Elaine slowly transformed from the proverbial ugly duckling into a swan.

The inconceivable had become the usual, the impossible possible, and the possible and the usual unthinkable.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge.

Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked...

History teaches us, however, that when the times are ripe for change and the government refuses or is unable to change, either society starts to decay or a revolution begins.

At times of profound, fundamental change in the foundations of social development it is not only senseless but impossible to expect some sort of previously worked out "model" or a clear-cut outline of the transformations that will take place. This does not mean, however, the absence of a definite goal for the reforms, a distinct conception of their content and the main direction of their development.

No matter how bad the lord is, the lout become a lord is ten times worse.

When swept out of its normal channel, life scatters into innumerable streams. It is difficult to foresee which it will take in its treacherous and winding course. Where today it flows in shallows like a rivulet over sandbanks, so shallow that the shoals are visible, tomorrow it will flow richly and fully.

The world knows caterpillar becomes butterfly but they don't care that it also becomes a moth. One is diurnal another nocturnal.Human once awakened can change the view to change self from Angulimala to a Buddha

Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

The metric system ruined me.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.

Vampire fans read the vampire not as death but as possibility

According to one of these terrible stories, the source of Daubmannus' erstwhile youthful cheerfulness and spirit, despite his affliction, was the fact that, hunched and bent as he was, he could reach down and suck at himself, and so he learned that the male seed tastes like a woman's milk. This was how he kept renewing himself.

Los sueños no habitan una solución lingüística, sino que flotan en un espacio libre, atemporal, y tan pronto se transforman en lengua o escritura, pierden su carácter voluminoso y se estiran en longitud.

He taught him to wag his trunk like a tail. Then Arnold painted the most beautiful cat's face on the elephant.

Mas as palavras parecem esperar a morte e o esquecimento; permanecem soterradas, petrificadas, em estado latente, para depois, em lenta combustão, acenderam em nós o desejo de contar passagens que o tempo dissipou. E o tempo, que nos faz esquecer, também é cúmplice delas. Só o tempo transforma nossos sentimentos em palavras mais verdadeiras (...)".

the pain didn't go away, but its sharp edge had dulled and softened like sea glass.

A snake that sheds its skin is still a snake.

You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination.

will one day have a fine figure, but for now,

It had been eleven years since he'd died; the pain didn't go away, but its sharp edge had dulled and softened like sea glass.

It was as if a warm room had gotten cooler, but it was still the same room.

but its sharp edge had dulled and softened like sea glass.