Quotes About Transformation

James Dale Davidson

Faster than all but a few now imagine, microprocessing will subvert and destroy the nation-state, creating new forms of social organization in the process.

Every social system, however strongly or weakly it clings to power, pretends that its rules will never be superseded.

You've seen what I can do," Thomas replied, trying to sound as dangerous as he felt. "You've watched me in the Maze and the Scorch." He almost wanted to laugh at the irony. They had made him into a killer … to save people?

Burn me--you grew some nice-sized eggs over night, now didn't ya?

He's right it does not matter anymore because the people we were before the maze they don't even exist anymore what does matter is who we are now and what we do right now

By the end of the day, the Gladers had turned into a small army. A very pathetic, ill-prepared Army, Thomas thought, but an army all the same.

He wasn't sure when he'd reached this turning point. But something had cracked within him.

The chaos around him seemed to siphon away his humanity, turn him into an animal.

The Changing.

It was as if the buildings were alive, growing right before their eyes as they got closer.

Thomas took off his nasty clothes and got to work making himself human again.

What's actually wrong with that Ben guy? He doesn't even look human anymore.

There was nothing in common, in the way he was lying, with any of the positions I had seen him in while he was alive, until I remembered the pose by the river in which I had most wanted to kill him. He now had that same relaxed, enjoying look of belonging anywhere he happened to be, and particularly in the woods.

For above all, love is a sharing. Love is a power. Love is a change that takes place in our own heart. Sometimes it may change others, but always it changes us.

No man will be kept in hell loner than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage the prison doors will open and there will be rejoicing among the hosts who welcome him into a better state.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

He used to pimp and pull shakedowns. Now he rode shotgun to History.

Salvation is not the stopping point; it is the starting point.

The relevance of the church is not found in its capitulation to culture but in its transformation of culture.

Bowie himself said, "Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity."2 After reviewing his troubled early years, British psychologist Oliver James wrote, "What seems to have been the trigger for his shift from distressed and tortured to emotionally healthy, was his adoption of personas in his musical career."3

Each year the snow tries to memorize, blindly, the landscape, as if it were the landscape that was going to melt in spring.

We often forget that the journey is just as important as the end destination, and evolution occurs all along the way.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.