Quotes About Transition

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. All we can do, and that human wisdom can do, is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees. This has all the benefits which may be in change, without any of the inconveniences of mutation.

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us; nor can we know distinctly to what port we steer.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

The Age of Chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.

Conservatives, he said, "are taught to believe that change means destruction. They are wrong.… Life means change; where there is no change, death comes.

I could certainly subscribe to the notion that life ends in old age, sickness, and death—but later, later.

The thought of resuming my life made me want to end it—unless I could change it completely.

That was the thing about America, people always moving on, so that a girl had to snap up a beau as fast as she could.

she sees her life pass before her in rapid succession, like clouds, different shapes and different colors, merging, passing into one another, the story of her life being pulled out of her, like the pages pulled from a book.

I am far from those I am with, and far from those I have left.

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

The lights of the little highway town ahead spread with their approach and then scattered like flushed prey as they entered its limits. Under the filling-station sheds, swirling insects clouded the naked bulbs. The stores were closed; the depot dark.

It was time to move on, which is why I'm now living here in the land of the cuckoo clock. Didn't someone once say, "all successful careers in finance end up in Switzerland?

Later that day when I passed the Admin lieutenant and the Sargeant standing by the Desk, I said casually, I'm leaving too, Sarge. Okay, he said, and I kept on walking.

He presented it with a length of string and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor to await the arrival of Autumn.

The company that gathered to take ship at Wapping was a varied one. There were a number of craftsmen, a lawyer, a preacher, two fishermen. There was also a young graduate of Cambridge, who had recently inherited money, partly from the sale of a tavern in Southwark. His name was John Harvard.

the waiting-room atmosphere in which death was the delayed train...

Most people wait for their parents to die with a mixture of tremendous sadness and plans for a new swimming pool.

Something had happened and he, like almost everyone else, had got used to the habit of life. Perhaps that's all life was: a habit that resisted the adventure of death.

Just before the top of the hill she stopped, breathed deeply, and tried to muster her scattered sense of calm, like a bride checking her veil in the last mirror before the aisle.

Why was the centre of his desire always in a place he had just deserted?

The important thing was the shedding of blood. Sounds barbaric, but the Old Testament was reminding us that there was a significant cost involved in moving from unclean to clean. You didn't have to pay it, but it still had to be paid.

For so long this had been my life, but it was all in the past. Now we all had to try and find the future.