Alchemy Quotes

106 quotes by 93 authors

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples'… — Linus Torvalds
Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of… — Hiromu Arakawa
We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is… — Keith Ablow
The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind. — Prince
So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy. — Sarah Dunant
Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open. — Unknown Author
What a gulf between impression and expression! Thatâ€™s our ironic fateâ€”to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare)… — Aldous Huxley
The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in… — Muhammad Iqbal
True alchemy lies in this formula: â€˜Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulseâ€™. — Arthur Rimbaud
You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra;… — Paramahansa Yogananda
This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than… — Paulo Coelho
The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things. — Joanne Harris
Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if… — Libba Bray
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take… — Florence King
I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it… — Tana French
Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just... Jean: A little brat who swears a lot Maes: An arrogant pipsqueak Roy: Useless. Just useless Alphonse: Sorry big… — Hiromu Arakawa
Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had… — Marilynne Robinson
The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have… — Edith Wharton
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old manâ€™s face, or an… — Duane Michals
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the… — Eduardo Galeano

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