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Quotes About Transformation

And you have fixed my life — however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.
~ Wilfred Owen
As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.
~ Wilfred Owen
Just around the corner in every woman's mind - is a lovely dress, a wonderful suit, or entire costume which will make an enchanting new creature of her.
~ Wilhela Cushman
?nsan giysiyi giyer, vücudunda ta??r, ki?inin çözülü?ü bir süreci and?ran biçimde, giysilerin çözülü?üyle ya?am?na intikal eder. ?nsanlar?n y?pranm?? giysilerini atmak için gösterdikleri garip çaba bence, y?pranm?? giysilerin i?aret etti?i çözülü?ün inkar?n?n kan?t?d?r.
~ Wilhelm Genazino
Das Wunderbare am Menschen ist, daß er wohl derselbe bleibt, aber nicht der gleiche.
~ Wilhelm Raabe
I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars.
~ Will Christopher Baer
Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas
~ Will Christopher Baer
I stare at Isabel without blinking. I stare until I can see the pale roots of her natural hair and the expensive skin cream that changed her skin from milk to olive and the colored lenses that gave her yellow eyes and I wonder how she changed her breasts and ass and shortened her legs. I stare at her until her eyes are pointed and her teeth glitter like fangs and I have to close my eyes. If she said her name was Lucy and she faked her death I would believe her.
~ Will Christopher Baer
It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.
~ Will Cuppy
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
~ Will Durant
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
~ Will Durant
The shape of the response was an inverted V. As you experienced it if you tried Add-1 or Add-3, effort builds up with every added digit that you hear, reaches an almost intolerable peak as you rush to produce a transformed string during and immediately after the pause, and relaxes gradually as you "unload" your short-term memory.
~ Daniel Kahneman
To perform the Add-3 task, you must hold several digits in your working memory at the same time, associating each with a particular operation: some digits are in the queue to be transformed, one is in the process of transformation, and others, already transformed, are retained for reporting.
~ Daniel Kahneman
He looks around, he suddenly recognizes in his colleagues what others see in him: tax officials. And he is one of them. How could it have happened that he became a tax official? On the computer he looks at pictures from his school days. Back then he wasn't a tax official yet.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.
~ Daniel Keyes
When life becomes difficult, allow yourself to feel the pain in the moment. Go with it for as long as it lasts, and then watch it dissolve away. Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.
~ Daniel Levin
I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197
~ Daniel Libeskind
Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant. Shakespeare, Macbeth
~ Daniel M. Gilbert
Things will have to change. And one of those things that will have to change: People will have to change their internal world." On
~ Daniel Mark Epstein
O importante não é saber como aconteceu, mas, sim, sentir que o que aconteceu foi um evento importante. Esse evento se chama consciência. Tomar consciência foi a grande revolução que Rairu proporcionou às pessoas que estavam no mundo de baixo. Elas não sabiam que havia outra maneira de viver. Quando desejaram partir em busca desse novo mundo, puseram-se a caminho, e muitos conseguiram chegar até em cima, porém, outros não quiseram...
~ Daniel Munduruku
Por causa disso tudo é que decidi, quando estava com 9 anos de idade, que, ao me tornar adulto, não seria índio, e sim um ser humano civilizado, capacitado para contribuir com o meu país. O que eu não sabia, no entanto, é que ser índio era algo que estava inscrito dentro de mim; não bastava dizer palavras mágicas para isso desaparecer.
~ Daniel Munduruku
Ten thousand grateful people jammed Sunday's enormous tabernacle to hear him announce the death of liquor and reveal the advent of an earthly paradise. "The reign of tears is over," Sunday proclaimed. "The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent.
~ Daniel Okrent
Until 1868 there wasn't a single school of architecture in the United States, and the conventional apprentice system proved of little utility when the first skyscrapers
~ Daniel Okrent
It was as if single nights had the duration of centuries, so within that time the most profound alterations in the whole of mankind, in the earth itself and the whole solar system could very well have taken place.
~ Daniel Paul Schreber