Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.
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.
What about you, Sage? I know we don't have to worry about you violating the dress code. Did you have fun at your Alchemist spa this weekend?
All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime, in the long battle I’d just signed on for to right the wrongs in the Alchemist and Moroi worlds. Maybe Marcus was right that I’d also signed myself up for disaster, but I didn’t care. In that moment, it seemed that as long as Adrian and I were together, there was no challenge too great for us.
I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.
Before a dream is realized the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way.
Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.
He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.
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
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.
Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.
Once you've got an inspired spark, you've got to strive. You've gotta keep putting wood on it, so they say, to keep it burning. But then there's the alchemist side of it, that's the fire that's burning but it don't burn.
Don't think about what you've left behind.
We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.
If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence
life is the moment we're living right now.
[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
Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.
It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.