Quotes About Transition

The journey back is always longer than the forward run.

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.

I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.

When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down—It was not Night, for all the BellsPut out their Tongues, for Noon.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …

You must remain. I must depart.Two autumns falling in the heart.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Politics swings like a pendulum.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

Revolutions never go backward.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.