Quotes About Transition

As the soul wanes, form appears.

I najdivnija tišina nikada ranije ?uta izrodi?e se odatle, Sunce još uvek skriveno tamo negde ?eka?e na slede?e poglavlje.

wow, a change, you know. that's what kills a man: lack of change.

Biliyor musun doktor, insan?n akl? ba??na çok tuhaf zamanlarda geliyor - ya gençlik tükendikten sonra, ya f?rt?na dindikten sonra, ya da k?zlar eve gittikten sonra.

perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.

Unsurprisingly, people with stone implements wanted metal tools as soon as they encountered them—the prospective reduction in workload was staggering

In the classic successional course, each suite of plants replaces its predecessor, until the arrival of the final, "climax" ecosystem, usually tall forest.

Historians provide many reasons for this extraordinary transition, high among them the fierce opposition of slaves themselves. But another important cause is that abolitionists convinced people around the world that slavery was a moral disaster. An institution fundamental to human society for millennia was made over by ideas and a call to action, loudly repeated.

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

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Some highly competent authorities are convinced that the setter is directly derived from the spaniel, and has probably been slowly altered from it. It is known that the English pointer has been

In a series of forms graduating insensibly from some apelike creature to man as he now exists, it would be impossible to fix on any definite point where the term 'man' ought to be used.

it is so important to bear in mind the probability of conversion from one function to another

we are always slow in admitting great changes of which we do not see the steps.

Natura non facit saltum.

They were both at such an age that they stood on a cusp. They could think in one part of their minds that their whole lives stretched out before them without boundary or limit. At the same time another part guessed that youth was about over for them and what lay ahead was another country entirely, wherein the possibilities narrowed down moment by moment.

That's the way it is at some point in life. An inevitable consequence of living. A lot of things begin falling away.

The window apparently wanted only to take his thoughts back. Which was fine with him, for he had seen the metal face of the age and had been so stunned by it that when he thought into the future, all he could vision was a world from which everything he had counted important had been banished or had willingly fled.

Back then, he'd have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day became it's own tiny season of gloom, like a hundred Sunday nights crowded together.

We all reach a point where we would like to draw a line across time and declare everything on the far side null. Shed

Their moral position in converting from slave holders to champions of freedom was about like a house cat on a cold night scooting through a closing door just before the latch clacks shut. But sometimes timing is all. A brief moment of history, less than a deep breath, becomes the difference between inside and outside.

That's the way it is at some point in life. An inevitable consequence of living. A lot of things begin falling away.

She had made her way to a place where an entirely other order prevailed from what she had always known.

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