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Quotes About Transition

The wonderful things are over
~ E.M. Forster
Then darkness rolled up again, the dark essay that is primeval but not eternal, and yields to its own painful dawn.
~ E.M. Forster
He filled a pipe with the tobacco that he had smoked for the last six years, and watched Romance wither.
~ E.M. Forster
As civilization moves forward, the shoe is bound to pinch in places
~ E.M. Forster
And in time' – his voice rose – 'there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation
~ E.M. Forster
Gray clouds were charging across tissues of white, which stretched and shredded and tore slowly, until through their final layers there gleamed a hint of the disappearing blue. Summer was retreating. The wind roared, the trees groaned, yet the noise seemed insufficient for those vast operations in heaven. The weather was breaking up, breaking, broken, and it is a sense of the fit rather than of the supernatural that equips such crises with the salvos of angelic artillery.
~ E.M. Forster
History develops, art stands still.
~ E.M. Forster
Her quiet, uneventful childhood must end, and it has ended
~ E.M. Forster
She was descending quicker than most women into the colourless years, and the look in her eyes confessed it.
~ E.M. Forster
Clive, did I hurt you?' 'No.' 'My darling, I didn't mean to.' 'I'm all right.' They looked at one another for a moment before beginning new lives. 'What an ending,' he sobbed, 'what an ending.
~ E.M. Forster
The night received her, as it had received Miss Bartlett thirty years before.
~ E.M. Forster
she had outgrown stimulants, and was passing from words to things.
~ E.M. Forster
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices
~ E.M. Forster
I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.
~ Earl Monroe
Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach."
~ Earl Nightingale
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
~ Earl Wilson
Hava bir tuhaf. Hayal kurmaya yönelik bir tutum var havada. Kaçmaya müsait bir bulutluluk. Bir balkon olsa ?imdi. Kimsenin seni tan?mad??? bir ?ehirde. Kahvenin içine konyak kendili?inden dü?se, kocaman bir h?rkan?n içinde olsan. Bir ?eyi terk etmi? olsan. Mesela bir ?ehri. Mesela kendini, yüzünü filan mesela.
~ Ece Temelkuran
Kokusunu çoktan unuttu?um bir zaman diliminde bile, ken­dini parma??n a?z?na as?l? an?ms?yorsan, öykü ba?lam??t?r. öykü, annenin sümerce bir yenilgi yaz?t? olmas?d?r. baba, her zaman oldu?u gibi karanl?k bir kap? aral???, dikenli bir kilit sesi. o içeri girdi?inde, sen art?k hep d??ardas?n.
~ Ece Temelkuran
Alle 30 Jahre kippt die Sprache vollständig um. Die Kommunikation zwischen den Generationen wird dann unmöglich.
~ Eckhart
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The world went insane before I did, I'm just adapting to the new reality.
~ Ed Brubaker
Politics swings like a pendulum.
~ Ed Gillespie
Martin Luther once said, "We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it.
~ Ed Hindson
These women never cut the umbilical cord. We get raised by one woman, and then when we're ripe, we get turned over to another woman.
~ Ed McBain