Transforming Quotes

269 Transforming quotes by 225 unique authors

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
What transforms this world is â€” knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable… — Yukio Mishima
The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming. — Alice Munro
I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing. — John Gardner
That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? — Yann Martel
Perforation! Shout it out! The deliberate punctuated weakening of paper and cardboard so that it will tear along an intended path, leaving a row of… — Nicholson Baker
Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal… — Tom Robbins
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an… — Orhan Pamuk
The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault — Brandon Mull
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion — Carl Jung
Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies. — Joseph Stiglitz
Jamie was more than just the woman I loved. In the year Jamie helped me become the man I am today. With her steady hand… — Nicholas Sparks
Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos… — Saul Bellow
What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life? — Paulo Coelho
Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family… — Bell Hooks
I find that I have more allies on the left than on the right, and that is because the left is, by and large, filled… — Winona LaDuke
Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person,… — David Sedaris
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey. — John Updike
God created meâ€”and youâ€”to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passionâ€”namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all… — John Piper
Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize that there are many different people in… — Joyce Meyer

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