Best 125 quotes in «alchemist quotes» category

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.

I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.

I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold.

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

I had to be the next family Alchemist. My sister... well, she's older, and usually it's the oldest kid who has to do the job. But, she's kind of... worthless. -Sydney to Rose

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it

In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.

It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.

In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

I want you by my side. Forever. (Full Metal Alchemist)

life is the moment we're living right now.

Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food.

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.

Stand up and walk. Keep moving forward. You've got two good legs. So get up and use them. You're strong enough to make your own path.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.

So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist)

Thanks to the central bank, most "monetary experts" and "leading macro-economists" can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists "explaining," like alchemists, how stones (paper) can be turned into bread (wealth).

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality.

Okay, so. You, Belikov, the Alchemist, Sonya Karp, Victor Dashkov, and Robert Doru are all hanging out in West Virginia together.” “No,” I said. “No?” “We’re, uh, not in West Virginia.

Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.

The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.

The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances.

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

There's no such thing as being cowardly in a fight. ~Edward Elric

The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures." A crucible was the vessel in which medieval alchemists attempted to turn base metals into gold. That the alchemists inevitably failed in their audacious attempts doesn't denigrate the power of the crucible as a metaphor for the circumstances that cause an individual to be utterly transformed.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

[Thinking about his first day if he were the Fuhrer] "On that day, all female officers will be required to wear... tiny miniskirts!" [Strikes pose] Roy Mustang, The Flame Alchemist, Full metal Alchemist

This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.