Quotes About Transition

Obstacles accelerate transformation

The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.

Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah].

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change.

It doesn't do a lot of good for your health to move from red meat to white meat, but it gets you further down the road towards making more substantial changes later.

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for like two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

I think employers need help in understanding how to translate a military career.

A change of scenery can help everything.

You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything.

MADDIE: Change is good. It's not always easy, but it's good. And it's time I made a few changes.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

History is a relay of revolutions.

With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.