Quotes About Transition

Não se trata de subir, velho ídolo mental desmentido pela história, velha cenoura que já não engana o burro. Não se trata de aperfeiçoar, de decantar, de resgatar, de escolher, de livre-abitrar, de ir do alfa ao ômega. Já se está. Qualquer um já está. O disparo está na pistola; mas é preciso apertar o gatilho, e o dedo está fazendo sinais para fazer parar o ônibus ou qualquer coisa assim.

Esa luz es tan usted, algo que viene y va, que se mueve todo el tiempo

La vida es una sala de espera –dijo el señor calvo, pisando el cigarrillo con mucho cuidado

Yo soy como el ave cisne, que canta cuando se muere

Sin tener que inventar los puentes, o coser los diferentes pedazos del tapiz, que de golpe hubiera ciudad, hubiera tapiz, hubiera hombres y mujeres en la perspectiva absoluta de su devenir

Pronto llegó noviembre con su pálido aliento de lunas y hojas muertas.

Aunque tal vez tuera yo el que la veía así, añorante de aquella estación de ciudad provinciana y tranquila a la que llegué un buen día decidido a iniciar mi carrera como periodista.

La realidad se ha difuminado y, en su lugar, ha surgido otra en la que el tiempo corre sin ningún control.

El choque entre mi memoria y lo que veía alrededor de mí me hacía sentirme fuera de un mundo que me era familiar, pero al que ya no pertenecía.

Debía de ser muy triste, por más que fuera su decisión, abandonar su casa y hacerlo sola, puesto que la persona con la que la compartiste ya no está. Las hijas y, sobre todo, los nietos, la ayudarían a sobrellevarlo, pero la carga sentimental la iba a soportar ella.

How could I be sure of these teeangers' national origin? Was I using names of origin to give them a place instead, when it was clear that they were moving toward a new language?

Cuando el sol asoma sobre las lomas, la hora celeste llega a su fin. La niebla se ha disuelto, las beatas están sumidas en éxtasis, los noctámbulos duermen, los canillitas han repartido los diarios, los obreros trepan a los andamios. La luz desvanece el mundo mágico del alba. Los gallinazos sin plumas han regresado a su nido.

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing.

A man is not a tree'...If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.

Stop building tomorrow's roads on today's grounds.

Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau ' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.

That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.

A person doesn't mourn forever.

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe that could change everything. In a couple of months you'd be seeing somebody else and I would too; she was no darker than you but she washed her panties in the shower and had hair like a sea of little punos and the first time you saw us, you turned around and boarded a bus I knew you didn't have to take. When my girl said, Who was that? I said, Just some girl.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.