Transforms Quotes
221 quotes by 186 authors
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Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold…
— Steve Rasnic Tem
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A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind…
— Bodhidharma
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Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.
— Rajneesh
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Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
— William Cowper
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All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is…
— Robertson Davies
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Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of…
— Charles Brent
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Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything.
— Gail Sher
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Death is the end of all life in the individual or the thing; if physical, the crumbling of the body into dust from whence it…
— Marcus Garvey
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Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.
— Frederick Lenz
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When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
— E. M. Forster
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What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for…
— Ashton Kutcher
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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
— Anna Pavlova
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Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
— Jerry Saltz
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An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
— Samuel Smiles
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The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out…
— Barry Hughart
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It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.
— Marjane Satrapi
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Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His.…
— Thomas Aquinas
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