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Quotes About Transition

There was permanence in change. It was the only way life could flourish.
~ Steven Savile
new city. With
~ Steven Saylor
When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the Elder, Servius Tullius. Tarquinius the Proud was to be the last, the very last, cast out and replaced forever by something called a republic. A mockery! A mistake! An experiment that failed! Today is the republic's final day. Tomorrow, men will shout in the Forum, 'All hail King Coriolanus!
~ Steven Saylor
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
~ Steven Spielberg
God made death so we'd know when to stop.
~ Steven Stiles
This also serves as a warning, that science may not yet be in its final form.
~ Steven Weinberg
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians
~ Steven Weinberg
The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing
~ Steven Wright
The Meaning Of Life The reason that we're all here is that it was too crowded where we were supposed to go.
~ Steven Wright
Ho l'orologio che va avanti di tre ore ma non sono mai riuscito ad aggiustarlo. Così da Los Angeles mi sono trasferito a New York.
~ Steven Wright
If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.
~ Stevie Smith
Death's not a separation or alternation or parting it's just a one-handled door" - from "Mrs Simpkins
~ Stevie Smith
A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist.
~ Steward Alsop
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
~ Stewart Alsop
Everything looks like a failure in the middle." Any
~ Stewart Brand
Climbing may be hard, but it's easier than growing up. (Thanks Ed Sklar!)
~ Stewart M. Green
There's nothing to do. You've been in the business long enough to understand grief. That's the awful thing: there is nothing to do but go on. You don't want to, you don't want to leave the loved one behind, but you do. Death's taught you that much at least.
~ Stewart O'Nan
In de weerdij van dien laatsten zomer dat ze te boere had overgebracht, was Mira van kind tot volslagen deerne uitgegroeid; slank en mager nog, onvast en los in de gewrichten, maar begaafd met al de kennis en streken om het verleidelijke van 't geen haar van vorm en vrouwelijk fatsoen nog ontbrak, als ontluikende schoonheid te doen uitkomen, en de rest als een belofte te laten gelden.
~ Stijn Streuvels
The dawn was beginning to bloom around him, and already the land was held in that surreal stillness that heralds the transition between night and day.
~ Storm Constantine
She'd taken her environment so much for granted, unaware that things inevitably change, and so they did.
~ Storm Constantine
I do not feel quite real today. How quickly things can change.
~ Storm Constantine
Daniel looked young and vulnerable, still wearing his school uniform, although he'd removed his tie and jacket.
~ Storm Constantine
I had not observed her for several months, and look what had happened.
~ Storm Constantine
Akahana was dizzying, mainly because it seemed to be several different places at once. On the surface, it was all hustle and heat, yet Shan was immediately aware of a dark and inscrutable undercurrent-magic hanging in the air, as Sinaclara had foretold. It also seemed as if if the ancient past was very close to the present and that it would be possible, either accidentally or otherwise to slip between the two.
~ Storm Constantine