Quotes About Transition

L'Histoire ne fonctionne pas ainsi. Jamais on ne revient en arrière, jamais on ne retrouve l'environnement matériel ou mental d'une époque antérieure. La marche du temps nous fait toujours pénétrer dans des zones nouvelles, mal explorées, peu balisées, et qui ne ressemblent qu'en apparence à celles qu'ont traversées les générations précédentes.

Bien des instants emblématiques qui ont façonné notre époque, de la chute du mur de Berlin à la chute des tours jumelles de Manhattan, trouvent leur origine dans les événements de « cette année-l?…

Je n'ai pas connu le Levant de la grande époque, je suis venu trop tard, il ne restait plus du théâtre qu'un décor en lambeaux, il ne restait plus du festin que des miettes. Mais j'ai constamment espéré que la fête pourrait recommencer un jour, je ne voulais pas croire que le destin m'avait fait naître dans une maison déjà promise à la démolition.

Un empire millénaire venait d'être aboli en notre présence, le monde musulman était en train de connaître un bouleversement majeur, qui allait avoir des conséquences sur toute l'étendue de la planète.

Childhood is like a mist in so many ways. A mist in which a you is moving to become another you.

Frame after aluminium frame had replaced the casements. The gesture by which you push a window open was now unnecessary. ... It was as if a part of us that was air and breeze had been denied entry.

I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.

Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.

We're just a hyphen between our parents and our kids. That's what you learn in middle age. Mostly this is something a mature person can live with. But every once in a while you just want to send up a flare. I too am here! Everybody is sympathetic until you try and make your minuscule life interesting and then they're like, What's wrong with you? You think you're special?

After Georgie, something had changed in our marriage, and there was nowhere solid to put the blame. We were almost forty, and simultaneously our marriage had - I don' know - thickened, agglutinated, become oatmeal-like. Differences between us that had once provided sparks now seemed inefficient. Was there love? Yes, yes - but at the margins. At the center, there was administration.

A birthday is a good time to begin anew; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them on again.

Fewer longtermers means more rookies. In the 103rd Congress (1993–1995), one of the highest turnover periods, 11 of 19 House Intelligence Committee members and 7 of 17 Senate Intelligence Committee members were serving for the first time.

When I read that I thought, I am almost fifty years old and the rest of my life will be love and loss, and when I look down the road, I see a fat old woman and her dog, is what I see.

Those of us who knew him and needed him didn't want to stop grieving, for fear we'd step forward, toward the future, and entirely lose the trace, the smell, and the feel of him.

For over a century, we've focused too much on relentless execution and depended too much on fear to get things done. That era is over.

This was one of those moments when I realized that my emotional baggage, once a few neatly packed pieces, was now like the Joads' truck, stacked high with old clothes, half a rocking chair, a mule, all barely secured with twine.

When I was growing up, in our house nudity was defined as the period of time between the shower and your towel.

Devon stares at him standing there, remembering the only other guy had ever opened a car door for her. Last summer. The sky was bright blue mirroring the water, the sun warm. A perfect day. He had smiled down at her; he'd That Look in his eyes- warm and eager and a little bit vulnerable. When he'd look at her in that way, and smile that tilted smile, her body would tingle with an electric tension that robbed her breath away. That was then. And now? Now she is here.

Before my dad died I saw the world as a place. By "place" I mean space. Fixed. Space did not move, but people moved in space. People and space could touch each other, but not very deeply. After he died, I saw that people and space are permeable to each other in a way that people and people are not. I saw that space is like water. People can go inside it.

She's altered the rules on me. We weren't supposed to become the teenagers who 'have problems.

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.

Just as it takes a tree a long time to begin to grow again once it's transplanted, so you can give your healthy roots time to find the nourishment of your new soil in your new community.

Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you'd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel.