Quotes About Transition

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

no one is ever ready for anything

But no one was indispensable. These guys, they lost a step and the game moved past them. The teams were eternal, but the players came and went. One

Jamie Carragher trained with United as a youngster. When he was with us he was a midfielder and a mundane, run-of-the-mill player.

A leader who arrives in a new setting, or inherits a big role, needs to curb the impulse to display his manhood.

After anyone retires from a position of responsibility and remains associated with the same organisation, it is unfair to your successor to try and retain the authority you once possessed. You have to let go and let the new man and the new regime do what they think is best.

Sometimes, things change so quickly you don't even know how it happened.

Time can do all sorts of things. It's almost like a magician. It can turn autumn into spring and babies into children, seeds into flowers and tadpoles into frogs, caterpillars into cocoons, and cocoons into butterflies. And life into death. There's nothing that time can't do. Except run backwards. That's its trouble really, it can only go one way.

Ritualism at its best is but the shortlived after-summer of the spiritual year! very fascinating it may be, but when it cometh, be sure winter is at the doors. "We all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

This was my slender bridge to the future, and I stepped onto it as carefully as I could.

The strange amber twilight I'd lived with was gone, and in its place was some terrible new brightness. I'd gone from feeling lost in a dream to lost in wakefulness, as if I might never sleep again.

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Ideas that have outlived their day may hobble about the world for years, but it is hard for them ever to lead or dominate life. Such ideas never gain complete possession of a man, or they gain possession only of incomplete people.

Home had a new meaning now. Jago watched him, and was satisfied. Like

Such a loss is devastating to a young child unless there is a replacement.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell,For sober, studious days!

Not to go back is somewhat to advance,And men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

All forms that perish other forms supply, (By turns we catch the vital breath and die) Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Be not the first by whom the new are tired, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.

I've been having chuck steak ever since I've been on the force, and now I'm going to have a bit of tenderloin.