Quotes About Transition

Here on earth we find ourselves in a waiting room.

In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

When one cannot think of how to do things better one simply makes things bigger. The construction of the great pyramids in Egypt marked the end of the Old Kingdom. Bigger and bigger cathedrals and temples were built when the faithful became secure and comfortable. Dinosaurs, too, were an evolutionary dead end: the huge reptiles were replaced by small, energy-efficient mammals.

Amid the chaos and confusion, one thing alone was certain: for the first time, a woman would sit upon the throne of England.

For the first time in the kingdom's history, all the contenders for the crown that Edward was about to relinquish were female.

They wanted spring, of course they wanted it, more than anything. They longed for sun with every pore of their skin. But spring hurts. If spring can come, if things can be different, how can you bear what your existence has been?

Your life can change in the blink of an eye, on a calm and beautiful Midsummer night. You lose what you love while you think it is still safe beside you.

9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then it is all the same. Suppose I have to make it different. But what am I going to do with my life? I know. Will eat some cheese.

You have to choose between the past and the present, and there really is no choice, Faye, it's a no-brainer. You can't live in both, and if you don't choose between the past and the present, then one day that choice may be made for you, and you may not like the way it goes.

It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change.

these boys chipping at the rigidities of social deference, in search of a place, a voice. In Spain too the old power seemed to be dying, but slowly and viciously and, as it turned out, not yet. Nor would it depart in the way scripted by Republican reformers, and not before in its passing it claimed from that generation a barbaric tribute, exacted in the coin of "national cleansing

For fear was the great unspoken protagonist of the transition process in Spain. Fear most of all of another civil war:

The transition of the 1970s in Spain was thus a feast of change, but also a civic famine, in that it left unresolved the huge weight of forty years of violent dictatorship, addressing none of the vast accumulated social hurt, the damage done.

crossing the lines, which is probably as good a definition of how social change happens as one can find.2

There should be no fear of death, for the death of the body is but a gentle passing to a much freer life

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

Childhood is a short season.

Life ... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.

every professional was once a beginner

We have built our houses between what is fluid and what is fixed.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.