Quotes About Transition

The vertical dimension reflects the transition from agrarian societies to industrial societies, which brings secularization, bureaucratization, urbanization, and rationalization. These changes are linked with a polarization between traditional and secular-rational values.

by shifting into reverse, jerking the wheel to the right or left, and shifting into drive.

The distance between the present system and our proposal is like comparing the distance between a Model T and the space shuttle. And I should know I've seen both.

Just like we age fast, so does the future come.

We go into labor as one person, but emerge as another.

Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.

young woman was so true to the little girl who had sometimes

Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it resting there.

Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.

Getting out of bed, out of a chair, changing her position, was like moving furniture.

Whenever he thought he knew the truth it merged into another truth.

To Delphine, the hesitation of March was cheering. March was all expectation, a gathering of power. Still cold but marginally warmer every day - a hopeful time of the year

It was always what my father called the last leg of the journey. But we did not stop this time. We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just kept going.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

In the convent, she'd been taught to walk with eyes downcast. Now, Father Damien tipped his chin out and narrowed his gaze, focused straight ahead.

Things look different from the middle of a flooded river.

A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages are like being told to scale a cliff using a rope attached to nothing.

Chapter 1, verse 4, he said. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

JANIE GETS STRANGER EVERY YEAR.

reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ...

The world leaves us long before we leave it…for good.

All in all, death is something like marriage.

That's what life is, a bit of light that ends in darkness.