Transformed Quotes
549 Transformed quotes by 442 unique authors
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the…
— John Berger
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In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or…
— M. G. Vassanji
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For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution took…
— David Berlinski
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I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in…
— George Will
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There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love. The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. If…
— Rhonda Byrne
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Sincerity becomes apparent. From being apparent, it becomes manifest. From being manifest, it becomes brilliant. Brilliant, it affects others. Affecting others, they are changed by…
— Confucius
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Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.
— Jamake Highwater
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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 us what was…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit.…
— James Salter
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Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices.…
— Andrei Sakharov
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I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment…
— Edward Carpenter
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The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to…
— Paul Valery
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A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our…
— Victoria Woodhull
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Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]
— Vash Young
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Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to…
— Tacitus
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Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined…
— Novalis
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When love has carried us above all things into the Divine Dark, there we are transformed by the Eternal Word Who is the image of…
— John of Ruysbroeck
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I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed…
— Josephine Humphreys
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An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather…
— James Paul Gee
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Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing…
— Charlie Brooker
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It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.
— Gerald Asher
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Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that…
— Oliver Burkeman
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