Transmutates Quotes & Sayings

Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents. — Karl Marx

Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick of myself. But then another idea starts percolating. It usually begins with the narrator's name, then some idea that intrigues me about her life or situation. I try to ignore it as long as I can, because I know when I start writing, I'll be right back into it, every single day. But eventually, I just have to. It's a compulsion! — Sarah Dessen

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others. — Matthieu Ricard

The wildlings had no where to go. Some continued upward, and died. Some went downward, and died. Some stayed where they were. They died as well. — Martin George

Humans were never the top of the food
chain," Ares answered angrily.

What is?" I asked.

We are." Ares answered. — Catherine Banks

The perception of what is small is (the secret of clear- sightedness; the guarding of what is soft and tender is (the secret of) strength. — Lao-Tzu

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. — Martin Short

One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. — Iris Murdoch

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace. — Walter Savage Landor

Living in beauty can dull your appreciation for such things. — J. Lynn Else

Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: yet the equivalent in a science department, doing physics or chemistry, does. So why is it that in universities writing about novels is thought to be a higher intellectual calling than writing novels; or rather, if writing novels is not thought to be intellectually valid, why is writing about them? — Ken Robinson