Quotes About Transition

They had an almost irresistible tendency to degenerate into a kind of lolloping amble.

I'm only forty-two—the age at which service just seriously begins.

in short, I sensed in myself those strange feelings that come over us when for the first time we enter the dwelling of a widower whom we had known before inseparable from his lifelong companion. These feelings are like seeing before us a man we had always known in good health, now lacking a leg.

Don't call yourself a change, let the change manifest in you and people will call you change without asking them to

Relationship is not all about starting but how it goes.

there was also something in me that felt contained there; that needed a different setting in which to grow. It was perhaps a mark of my arrogance and immaturity that I believed I had to leave in order to do so.

Old age is woman's hell.

I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.

And what is adolescence if not a great height from which we are all expected to jump?

Anyone who has ever stood at a great height and felt the impulse to jump recognizes the draw. And what is adolescence if not a great height from which we are all expected to jump?

He realized with a start that something was about to begin. It might be something dull and uninspiring, something he had experienced countless times before, something that wouldn't make a lick of difference when he died. But it was always good to have something about to begin.

Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!

Second Avenue, was now the Fondue Chalet. Why, Siegfried wondered, did not anyone in America understand the wonderful

The process of waiting and enduring qualifies you for the next step—the step into your destiny.

And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.

The big question about the hunter-gatherers, therefore, does not seem to be 'How did they progress towards the higher level of an agricultural and politicised society?' but 'What persuaded them to abandon the secure, well-provided and psychologically liberating advantages of their primordial lifestyle?'.1

WczeÅ›niej czy pó?niej dekonstrukcjonistów zdekonstruujÄ… ich wÅ'asne metody. "Prze?yliÅ›my Ã…Å¡mier? Boga i Ã…Å¡mier? CzÅ'owieka. Z pewnoÅ›ciÄ… prze?yjemy tak?e Ã…Å¡mier? Historii... i Ã…Å¡mier? Postmodernizmu.

For the "new democracies" in Eastern Europe, meeting this standard "would be commensurate with their passage from totalitarianism to democratic states." Eizenstat is a senior US government official and a prominent supporter of Israel. Yet, judging by the respective claims of Native Americans and Palestinians, neither the US nor Israel has yet made the transition.85

We may not realize it, but every point during the passage of our lives is a point of no return -- except for what memory permits.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.