Quotes About Transformation

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

When I discovered eyelash extensions, it was like the sea has parted; the sun came out. It was everything.

Federalists, Whigs, Democratic-Republicans; parties are born, parties die, and parties realign themselves to adapt to shifting demographics and attitudes.

And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.

I definitely used to be a party girl.

Cinema was my rite of passage.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.

Being a mother impacts every aspect of your life. It's a rite of passage which gives you an entirely different outlook on things.

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better for it.

I want to understand rites of passage I've never experienced, like motherhood.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.

The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down.

The time of Milosevic has long passed.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

A revolution is more than the destruction of a political system. It implies the awakening of human intelligence, the increasing of the inventive spirit tenfold, a hundredfold; it is the dawn of a new, science — the science of men like Laplace, Lamarck, Lavoisier. It is a revolution in the minds of men, more than in their institutions.

There is every reason to believe that, when the coming Revolution takes place, Germany will go further than France went in 1793.

Every few hundred years in Western history, there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society—its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions—rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time. —Peter Drucker

Trade is also a risky business. As the growth of trade transformed the principles of gambling into the creation of wealth, the inevitable result was capitalism, the epitome of risk-taking.

And the god of Ahab was called Beelzebub. Nowadays we call him Pir Bub.