Quotes About Transition

There comes a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back. —Maxwell Hill FOREWORD My mother called it "God's will.

again, but he missed his flight out. I don't have to ask him why he missed his plane. I know why. He's scared to go home. He doesn't feel like he belongs there anymore. He belongs here. He has a job here. What's he going to do at home, without a leg?

There comes a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back. —Maxwell Hill

Come the fall, I would be leaving for college and my mother would lose her little boy, and I would lose the person who had always been there for me, my fiercest advocate since the day I'd been born.

That's not to say she wasn't sincerely happy for me, but with every new beginning, there is an inevitable end we must first accept, and my mother was struggling to accept that her boy had finished high school and would be leaving home in just a few short months.

Strike the tent.

Let the tent be struck.

All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still

Since we cannot move Leningrad ... then we must move the border.

You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings — there are no such things. There are only middles.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

Back out of all this now too much for us,Back in a time made simple by the lossOf detail, burned, dissolved, and broken offLike graveyard marble sculpture in the weather,There is a house that is no more a houseUpon a farm that is no more a farmAnd in a town that is no more a town.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

Buffett quoted Keynes: "The difficulty lies not in the new ideas but in escaping from the old ones." Buffett

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

The intellectual advancement of man depends upon how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

Death is liberty, absolute and eternal.

It's an illness," she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nillness." Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother... sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.

difficile est longum subito deponere amoren, difficile est, uerum hoc qua lubet efficias… …it is hard to throw off long-established love: Hard, but this you must manage somehow…

I'm totally serious. Look it up on the net. When women turn, they really turn.

It is hard to abruptly shrug off a long-established love Hard, but this, somehow, you must do.

You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike