Alchemist Quotes - Page 4

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

The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.

Eat when it's time to eat. And move along when it's time to move along.

life is the moment we're living right now.

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

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

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

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

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

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

A king is no king without his people, but a people without their king would be lost as well.

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

Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.

We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.

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

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

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

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.

Bottoms are alchemists who magically transform pain into sex.

You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem. Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.

Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

When I, who is called a "weapon" or a "monster", fight a real monster, I can fully realize that I am just a "human".

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

You are an alchemist who can turn six beers into an awkward three week relationship.