Quotes About Transition

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.

cold, still, lookin a little uncomfortable in death as if they weren't quite used to it yet.

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

When it comes to 'Glee ' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.

How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.

The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else.

Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? You hadn't realized it. And you notice that the sun has set already, the day gone before you knew it -- and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape. That's retirement.

Whatever life lessons we can glean from having read, perhaps being middle of a book is what really counts as living.

She couldn't be sure that everything she knew about herself was portable.

I was going to click my heels and go home, where life would be, as it is anywhere, a little bit dull Knasas, a little bit great and terrible Oz. I just wanted to stand here for a minute, first, and fix in my memory the life I wasn't choosing, the way Rajiv looked at me before I told him I was leaving, the cottonwood snow. Nathan watched me, an uncertain look on his perfectly, terribly familiar face. "Are you ready?" he said

When you see the most dramatic shift is when you transition from an abstract idea to a slightly more material conversation,' Jony said.

All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.

Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever.

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.

Been to yesterdays, lived through todays. Looking on toward tomorrows - new characters, new plays. The whys of life change, and so do ways, new scenery is built, to fill an empty stage.

Someday you will understand that life can't flow as you always planned.

Your new vibration is your earned situation and your reward for the work you have done raising the planet's energy. Don't believe anyone who tells you exactly what will happen to your planet at a given time. This is all in transition, and is totally up to you to change.

carrying their suitcases.