Quotes About Transition

If Arsene Wenger came down to League Two he would have to adapt, he couldn't work in the same way he works at Arsenal.

I had six years at Arsenal but the last two were very difficult.

Leaving Arsenal was the most difficult decision of my career.

He felt the brusque transition from his poetic Paris to the dumb and arid province; and when, coming downstairs, he chanced to see Monsieur Hochon cutting slices of bread for each person, he understood, for the first time in his life, Moliere's Harpagon.

Tears came into Eugene's eyes. He was still under the spell of youthful beliefs, he had just left home, pure and sacred feelings had been stirred within him, and this was his first day on the battlefield of civilization in Paris. Genuine feeling is so infectious that for a moment the three looked at each other in silence.

Aunque el vulgo no admite cambios bruscos en los sentimientos, no es menos cierto que dos amantes se separan a menudo más rápidamente de lo que tardan en unirse. Iba incubándose en madame de Bargeton y en Lucien un desencanto sobre ellos mismos cuya causa no era otra que París.

they should have seen that every institution has its climacteric periods, when words lose their old meanings, and ideas reappear in a new guise, and the whole conditions of politics wear a changed aspect, while the underlying realities undergo no essential alteration.

A man of any consequence in his native place, where he cannot go out but he meets with some recognition of his importance at every step, does not readily accustom himself to the sudden and total extinction of his consequence. You are somebody in your own country, in Paris you are nobody. The transition between the first state and the last should be made gradually, for the too abrupt fall is something like annihilation.

Even in a place of sorrow, time passes. Even in a place of joy. Do not assume that either keeps life from continuing,

Experiencing that intense emotion is what helps us, ultimately, accept that our mothers are gone.

Somewhere in that hour I lost all relation to a middle ground, and I didn't regain it for what became a very long time. In

I know you feel too big for this place. But when you get out of here, you'll see how small you are in the world.

just as tunes once gay inevitably become plaintive when the generation that first sang them has turned to dust?

Cease your efforts to find where the last rose lingers.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them as they go, they take many away.)

You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

Al cruzar de una pieza a otra, los pasos hallaban eco en toda la casa, como si un largo abandono hubiera sensibilizado su resonancia.

The boys are caught between a private conversation among themselves, a world only they can understand, and their awareness of the artist, the adult observer looking and listening. They remind me of us, of me and my fellow patients, the garments of the adult world not quite fitting us, the jumbled machinery of the day-to-day not quite belonging to us, asked to give an account of ourselves and unsure quite what to say.

Maybe that's what the night is for, just so's we can know the difference when the light comes again.

The dawn that Anna feared might never come would appear on schedule, just as it always had - and after it another, and another. And yesterday would become Last Month, then Last Winter, then Last Year, then Two and Five and Ten Years Ago, and one day the people would have to stop and think before they could say how long ago it was ...

At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them.