Quotes About Transition

Where I had once thought to say, Look at me, I must now turn the attention of others away from myself.

She was fifty, a difficult age for letting go, still young enough to have ambitions and desires but with fewer opportunities of satisfying either.

They sat in silence until it was time for her to go. 'Go before he gets back,' said her mother. They stood up, embraced. Merle was shockingly aware of her daughter's changed appearance. 'Poor child, poor child,' she said. 'But she was a young woman,' protested Harriet. 'A beautiful young woman.' 'No, dear,' said her mother sadly. 'I meant you.

and, after satisfying himself that the business was being looked after, disappeared again into the busy street. They suspected that their days in Hilltop Road were numbered, that Ostrovski would dispossess

The weather was still fine, but waning in conviction, as if its hold on heat and light were growing weaker.

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

death is only a small interruption.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.

Change does come.

Are you happy?" "I think I may be going to be happy." Remember, things do not force, forge or fashion. They fall into place

Things wither and die before us so that we may better savor that we live.

to the landslide.

You don't think of that when you retire – that you don't have any space to yourself.

What did your neighbours do before they retired?' Vera knew she should move on to the detail, to questions more relevant to the investigation, but she'd always been a nosy cow.

I don't have my own life any more.

I'm just at the age when time speeds up in an odd way. Do you know what I mean? The winters come closer together and you learn to accept that you're not special anymore.

Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.

This world - the Western world - has failed. We must have a plan B. We're the plan B.

Star Trek' ushered in the end of the Westerns. Then the canvas switched to the sci-fi canvas.

After 'Baby Doll,' I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from 'Baby Doll.'

I was always the bad guy in westerns. I played more bad guys than you can shake a stick at until I played the Professor. Then I couldn't get a job being a bad guy.

Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.