Quotes About Transition

What am I waiting for, Emily asked herself. For each Saturday in Young in Heart to end? For Mrs. Conwey to die? For news from some college and a sense of what next year would be?

December 31, 1999, is the evening when the great odometer in the sky clicks ahead.

The empire of the Pharaohs was old before Rome was a twinkling in Odysseus's eye, wise before China had been discovered, and over and done with before our founding fathers came down from Mount Olympus to give us the Bible and the US Constitution—

Revolutions (she'd long since learned) ran on committees just like any other government, once you got past the screaming-and-shooting stage.

Emma has switched from sanguine to sanguinary in a matter of seconds

One moment you're cruising along effortlessly at thirty thousand feet while the cabin crew slosh the whisky around in business class, the next you're in a screaming death-spiral with flames pouring from the hole where the starboard engine was meant to be before some toe-cheese puked a missile up its exhaust. It takes a little time to switch mode from business-as-usual to six-alarms-emergency if you're not primed to expect it

For I have seen the women moving, this year Storing away the clothes that will never be worn again, putting the death-sanctified sheets away Gathering up their lives too, in patterns I cannot enter

How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?

It may not be written in any book, but it is written— You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

I didn`t change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.

Until we're rotten, we cannot be ripe.

Then his real struggle would begin. Then he would try to make them understand that the old ways were no more.

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

But it was like beginning life anew without the vigor and enthusiasm of youth, like learning to become left-handed in old age.

La vida de un hombre desde el nacimiento hasta la muerte era una serie de ritos de paso que le acercaban cada vez más a sus antepasados.

The Igbo culture says no condition is permanent. There is constant change in the world.

The change in her when it came was sudden.

I USED TO make love. Now I Make coffee.

El modelo tradicional de promoción, comercialización y distribución de música ha perdido vigencia. Los principales sellos discográficos y el sistema de distribución minorista que adquirió dimensiones colosales gracias a la fábrica de éxitos de la radio se encuentran con un modelo empresarial dependiente de los grandes éxitos; y ahora ya no hay suficientes discos de oro y de platino. Estamos asistiendo al fin de una era.

If you think about it, today's hit is tomorrow's niche. Almost

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

A wearable, writing-enhancing object serves several important purposes. First, it helps you transition from the world of everyday living into the fictional realms you've created. In the former you are a normal person, working a normal job. In the latter, you are an all-powerful deity capable of laying waste to entire cities with a few taps of the keyboard.

We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday.

sometimes you just have to bury the dead and move on.