Quotes About Transition

The children of the grove owners, oppressed by the placidity of . . . Redlands, have begun to leave the area.

In my end is my beginning. —T. S. Eliot

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Shad pointed to the book on the cocktail table. 'The guy in this story, he turns into a motherfucking centipede. Wakes up one morning and bingo! He's a bug. Sounds asinine, but it sure makes you think. People change overnight, they're not careful.

Dawn begins pushing back the covers of night and the sun rolls out of bed.

Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.

Much of the difficulty in attempting to restructure American and other societies arises form this resistance by groups with vested interests in the status quo. Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and its resisted.

Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted.

By far the most exciting, satisfying and exhilarating time to be alive is the time in which we pass from ignorance to knowledge on these fundamental issues; the age where we begin in wonder and end in understanding. In all of the four-billion-year history of life on our planet, in all of the four-million-year history of the human family, there is only one generation privileged to live through that unique transitional moment: that generation is ours.

Kepler and Newton represent a critical transition in human history, the discovery that fairly simple mathematical laws pervade all of Nature; that the same rules apply on Earth as in the skies; and that there is a resonance between the way we think and the way the world works.

I find these comparisons particularly poignant: life versus death, hope versus fear. Space exploration and the highly mechanized destruction of people use similar technology and manufacturers, and similar human qualities of organization and daring. Can we not make the transition from automated aerospace killing to automated aerospace exploration of the solar system in which we live?

They will manage to cross the ocean of becoming.

In a world in transition, students and teachers both need to teach themselves one essential skill - learning how to learn.

If the laws of nature are unpredictably reassorted at the cusps (the transition from contraction to expansion of the universe), then it is only by the most extraordinary coincidence that the cosmic slot machine has this time come up with a universe consistent with us.

Somos el producto de cinco mil millones de años de evolución biológica lenta, fortuita, y no hay razón alguna para pensar en que se haya detenido tal proceso evolutivo. El hombre es un animal en período de transición. No es el clímax de una creación.

Sometimes a man has got to hock his sweet used-to-be in order to finance his present situation...

My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is - all over...

Some single men stop drinking when they git married and others start!

life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is-all-over.

Sometimes we sleep too long in the afternoon and when we wake we find things changed, Signora.

Well, they say nature hates a vacuum. - That's what they say, but sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

I was not aware of how much vital energy had gone into this struggle until the struggle was removed.

Humanity is just a work in progress.

We go like flies when we come to the end of the summer . . . And who is going to prevent it?