Quotes About Transition

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Winter always turns into Spring

For a nation that had been without a real head of state since the execution of Louis XVI,

the new order promised stability, where for years there had been only chaos.

He turned away, unable to watch as Fournier lowered the colours

When a newspaper moves online, the bundle falls apart.

The clock played a crucial role in propelling us out of the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance and then the Enlightenment.

All technological change is generational change.

Maybe that's nature's way. Making people you once loved less lovable, so that it won't be so hard when they go.

Well, this may have once been a ham, but now it is nothing but an ex-ham.

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

Why postpone a necessary element of running with a deviation like heel striking when we can land directly into our next point of action without delay?

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

She got in her car and drove off. A lot of life is like that.

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

you almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.

You meet people and sometimes they're more important to you than you are to them. Sometimes you just have to give thanks for all the ways knowing them has changed you, and watch them walk away to pastures new.

As the red leaf warns: winter will be with us soon enough. If only I could bottle a little of this sunshine up and open it in January, like jam

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

I'm fast becoming the one who leaves things behind

Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.