Quotes About Transformation

Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing.

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

I'm sure there were people who were disappointed that I got slimmer, but as one gets older one does often get a bit thinner. There was no great mystery: I had some puppy fat and I lost it.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.

I made my third parole and I believe if I had made it the first time, I wouldn't be here today. I still would've been out there doing stupid stuff.

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

The way I see it, the third series of 'Downton Abbey' is all about change and how each character adapts to those changes.

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.

For a real New India to arise, all petty and small things must be given up. To be redeemed, all Indians must offer to sacrifice not only their good things, but all those evil things they cling to blindly - their hates and their divisions, their pride in what they should be thoroughly ashamed of, their quarrels and misunderstandings.

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Even though I be bound in the Name, I have not yet become perfected in Jesus Christ.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

Just remember, in 1973, we had no digital cameras, no personal computers, no Internet. The thought of putting a billion transistors in a cell phone was ludicrous.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, suddenly I had a new identity: prodigy.