Transformed Quotes · Page 6

“By the time the first light appeared in the sky she felt herself transformed by the desire to be known, completely.”

— Kamila Shamsie

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.

— Brennan Manning

Celebrate each season, for you too, are transformed with the turns of the earth.

— Arthur Dobrin

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

— Robert Gottlieb

Our emotions are not transformed by trying harder, but by seeing more clearly.

— Mike Bickle

By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.

— Angela of Foligno

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

— David Puttnam

How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and…

— Allan Sekula

Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine,…

— Vaclav Smil

The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male…

— Henry Rollins

There are beings who come into this world, from time to time, not simply with miraculous powers, which we call the siddhas,…

— Frederick Lenz

“I look at him ready to cry again. Not out of pain. Not out of need. But because his words rub that…

— Aileen Rose

If the cross does provide us with a true picture of what God is like, it follows that God is a redeeming…

— Andrew Linzey

After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For…

— Elizabeth McCracken

How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually…

— John Calvin

Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of…

— Susan Hill

"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths."…

— H. P. Blavatsky

As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's…

— T. S. Eliot

As far as your ego is concerned and your jealousy is concerned, my whole work here is to help you become so…

— Rajneesh

I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over…

— Ann Voskamp

The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes,…

— Mary Schmich

But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional…

— Richard J. Foster

We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans…

— Thomas Berry

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.

— Sigmund Freud

Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other…

— Fred Armisen

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

— Sue Townsend

You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.

— Deepak Chopra

Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

— Roger Ballen

I feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel.

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

— Gene Edwards

Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision.

— Frederick Lenz

Europe was born with Jean Monnet but then was progressively transformed.

— Beppe Grillo

We mustn't let ourselves be moulded by this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind.

— Senora Roy

Sure Start transformed my life as a mum and allowed me to get back to work.

— Angela Rayner

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

— Richard Avedon

The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

— Ban Ki-moon

“the birth of the twins and what happened to them, although traditional, has transformed me as irreversibly as soaking cloth in a…

— Lisa See

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts…

— Thomas a Kempis

I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms…

— Patti Smith