Recasting Quotes

#1. The course led them to the moment when, in answer to the highest of one's values, one's spirit makes one's body become the tribute, recasting it
as proof, as sanction, as reward
into a single sensation of such intensity of joy that no other sanction of one's existence is necessary.

Ayn Rand

#2. Having invented himself, the narcissist sees no problem in recasting that which he had designed in the first place. The narcissist is his own repeated Creator - hence his grandiosity.

Sam Vaknin

#3. Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale.

Marie Rutkoski

#4. The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Alan Lightman

#5. We will not be recasting J.J. Murphy. He was a lovely man, and the best Denys Mallister we could have hoped for. And now his watch is ended.

D. B. Weiss

#6. The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.

Zygmunt Bauman

#7. Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

Matthew Arnold

#8. Because the Bolsheviks, who were so intent upon recasting the future from a mold of their own making, would not rest until every last vestige of his Russia had been uprooted, shattered, or erased. Returning

Amor Towles

#9. The Chosen Layla was what had changed everything for him, recasting the Brotherhood from target to tolerable, from enemy to co-existable tenant in the world. In

J.R. Ward

#10. Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.

Graham Joyce

#11. Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

Colson Whitehead

#12. A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#13. I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.

Billy Bragg

#14. In our machine-dominated society of megacities, countless people suffer some degree of what has been termed ecological autism.

Howard John Clinebell

#15. You're going to make me L-word you.

Deborah Ann

#16. I'm always going to worry. When it comes to you, there's nothing I won't do, and he knows that. That's my weakness - how much I love you, the lengths I'll go to protect you.

Tijan

#17. The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. Gideon brought into my life. The acceptance and the love. The safety. Gideon had given me my freedom back, a life without terror. Giving him vows in return was too simple a repayment for that.

Sylvia Day

#19. America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.

Ralph Steadman

#20. I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

Dashiell Hammett

#21. It's never too late to be wise.
See how your spirit has been
fermenting.

Yrsa Daley-Ward

#22. I don't think I would've been performing this long if I didn't love it sincerely to the degree that I do. It's not enough to like it. Dilettantes like things. Professionals love things and I consider myself a professional.

Lea Salonga

#23. Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Bob Dylan

#24. An image of myself, in a year's time, passed in front of my eyes. Rolled. An image of a giant bagel with legs and arms fluttering about rolled in front of my eyes.

Orson De Witt

#25. When you heed the calling of your heart, you are following your purpose. Having purpose in your life gives you the courage to do the things you are meant to do. When you are purpose driven, you have learned to listen to your intutition and never let no get in your way.

Rhonda Britten

#26. If i were to lose a friend ... then i couldn't die in peace!

Sawada Tsunayoshi

#27. You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

Kristin Cashore