Quotes About Transition

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.

South Sudan and its people are at a precarious crossroads between being and not being.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Et je redoute l'hiver parce que c'est la saison du comfort!

You start out with one thing, endup with another, and nothing'slike it used to be, not even the future.

Perhaps it is the setting; rules tend to reduce their grip when you cross borders.

transition to mechanisms for getting to scale, fast. The business that has been protected from conventional disciplines (such as producing return on investment)

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

You don't know something bothers you until you no longer have to do it. Suddenly you're both angry and glad. Angry you did it for all those years and glad you'll never do it again.

We've all had that feeling after final exams were completed, and we whispered to ourselves, "thank God it's over." It's not over as you will learn in life you must keep moving forward to succeed. And if you don't, guess what; it's over.

The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

Beyond the black is the light.

By the time you're an adult, you're used to seeing your friends disappear into their five-year plans. They drop out to get married, have babies, go to grad school, get divorced. They start a band or enter the penal system. They vanish for years at a time - some come back, some don't. Some of them you wait for and some you let go. Sometimes the only way they come back is in a song.

I still haven't finished unpacking - by the time I do, it'll be time to move again.

It was a smashing time, and then it ended, because that's what times do.

Everything was changing, that was obvious. The world was so full of music, it seemed we could never run out. 'Twas bliss in that dawn to be alive, but to be young and overworked and underexposed and stuck in a nowhere town was very heaven. It was our time, the first one we had to ourselves. It was a smashing time, and then it ended, because that's what times do.

We were young and in love and the world was changing

Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.

As I took Allison to the airport for her flight into San Francisco and the rest of her life, I thought about how lucky her father and I were to have had her in our lives. My time with her was over, though I was sure we would stay in touch. I kept thinking I should be sad, but I felt content more than anything. Now, I'm not saying I won't want to call her every day, and she'll probably die without me, but why ruin something so perfect trying to stay together?

Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.

Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.

I abandoned the crate and curled up on the floor. There was no risking a hotel now, not on the last night. There would be no electric blanket, no champagne, no room service. What a world. It was the same world that would end tomorrow night.