Quotes About Transition

Nothing is permanent, except change.

It's hard to be a woman, she thought. You love your baby with all your heart and soul, and then one day he just leaves.

Therefore I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office." "Yes!" George punched the air. "He's done it! He's gone!" What Maria felt was not so much triumph as relief. She had woken up from a nightmare. In the dream, the highest officers in the land had been crooks, and no one could do anything to stop them.

Los buenos tiempos se van para no volver nunca más.

I'm only thirty-seven, he thought; is this when old age begins?

se quedó asombrado ante el desconocido en que se había convertido.

Not my usual role,' she said

These Sunday afternoons were the golden moments in a life that was rapidly falling apart. The

luces intermitentes. Se sintió aliviado al llegar al puente Carquinez. Una

In dog philosophy it is always better to go somewhere than to be left behind.

There is a special mixture of wisdom and innocence that comes only to adolescents. - Ursula Dewar

That was not the end of the problems, but it was the beginning of solutions.

It's fall coming, I kept thinking, fall coming; just like that was the strangest thing ever happened. Fall. Right outside here it was spring a while back, then it was summer, and now it's fall-that's sure a curious idea.

Itt az Å'sz, járt a fejemben, itt az Å'sz. Mintha most elÅ'ször volna itt, fura dolog. ?sz. Még nem is olyan régen tavasz volt, aztán nyár, most meg Å'sz – fura csakugyan.

Elveszni talán nem is olyan rossz.

This kept happening, off and on. It'd be bright for a little bit, everything shining like chrome, waxy-looking, polished, then go dark as muddy water.

I guess this is what it's like to be a Vegetable; you lose yourself in the fog. You don't move. They feed your body till it finally stops eating; then they burn it. It's not so bad. There's no pain. I don't feel much of anything other than a touch of chill I figure will pass in time.

As Robert Kegan, of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, put it, "I know of no better way to summarize development than that the subject of one stage becomes the object of the subject of the next stage.

starting with the Renaissance and running through the Enlightenment, there occurred what we might call "the great reversal." Suddenly, very suddenly, the Ascenders were out, the Descenders were in—and the transition was bloody, arguably the bloodiest cognitive transformation in European history.

The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.