#transformation

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#god-s-will #personification #philosophy #regret #religion

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#appropriation #characterized #characterizes #day #european

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#defined #force #human #human rights #internalized

Nimbus is doing a great service with these excellently produced transformations of piano roll recordings. ↗

— Harold Bauer

#great #great service #piano #produced #recordings

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#british #happened #happening #nobody #passing

I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#dream #element #extraordinary #i #i think

Transformation literally means going beyond your form. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#form #going #literally #means #transformation

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#before #changes #country #degree #did

Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees to one that is growing, vibrant and confident. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#confident #decline #growing #huge #knees

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#government #great #our #precipice #transformation