Quotes About Transition

Il nonno dimenticò che il sole, dopo aver brillato, si oscura, che la luna divenuta piena comincia a declinare, che un recipiente pieno si capovolge e che alla prosperità segue la decadenza; e commise un grave errore nel voler organizzare un grande funerale per la nonna.

I'd heard "Rhapsody in Blue" a thousand times and it always amazed me. It was so humble and then so bombastic. It was beautiful, bright, and terrifying: old and new, European and American. At times it sounded like Debussy, at times it sounded like Stravinsky, and at times it sounded like the Lower East Side in 1910. "Rhapsody in Blue" was a quintessentially New York work of art, but it was also about moving from east to west, from the old world to the new...

We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.

We are all migrants through time.

when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time.

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

unas elecciones perdidas siempre pueden volver a ganarse, pero un cambio de reglas significa una situación completamente nueva.

Están robándonos las ovejas. Así describió un jesuita la oleada de cambios que barren el cristianismo en América Latina,

The more drastic the erosion of any given barrier to power, the more unusual or unexpected the new players, and the faster they may attain prominence. Identify the barriers to power and whether they are coming up or going down, and you can solve a large part of the puzzle of power.

during transitions to democracy, nations often undergo political convulsions that make them hard to govern, thus feeding nostalgia for their old authoritarian order.

that during transitions to democracy, nations often undergo political convulsions that make them hard to govern, thus feeding nostalgia for their old authoritarian order.

los cambios que han hecho que el poder sea más fácil de obtener, más complicado de usar y más difícil de conservar.

El poder se está degradando. En pocas palabras, el poder ya no es lo que era.

Similarly, the long-entrenched power of the major organized religions is decaying at a remarkably rapid pace.

They are stealing our sheep". So one Jesuit described the tide of change sweeping Christianity in Latin America, long a Catholic bastion. Who are "they"? The new evangelical, Pentecostalist, and charismatic Protestant churches that have sprouted across the region in the last thirty years..... But the sheep have not been stolen. The sheep aren't sheep anymore: they are consumers, and they have found a more attractive product in the market for salvation.

less so than their predecessors.

Sometimes you just had to feel it. Sometimes you had to let the terror and the anger and the fear tear you apart. So you could feel what came next.

Change is a choice. It's long and it's slow.

I can't stay," said Chanu, and they clung to each other inside a sadness that went beyond words and tears, beyond that place, those causes and consequences, and became a part of their breath, their marrow, to travel with them from now to wherever they went.

He would not come again. This was good. No. This was bad. At least it was an end.

However, now she was a schoolgirl no longer. She had discovered how to manage her hair, had been to one or two parties and a night club, and laid on lipstick with the idea that each layer was a layer of sophistication.

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.