Quotes About Transition

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We are finally no longer critically relevant to the world economy. The rest of the globe is strong enough to decouple from us. We, our country, our city, our infrastructure, are in a state of freefall.

L'eau est vraiment l'élément transitoire. Il est la métamorphose ontologique essentielle entre le feu et la terre

always squinting around the corner for the future that is already with us, at our ease, elsewhere

All beds became deathbeds at last.

I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy

his body close to the ground, he turned and

It was impossible to say where one gesture ended and the next began.

And after winter folweth grene May.

His spirit chaunged house and wente ther, As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher.

Even so, Churchill's path was well-nigh unique in deserting one party for another and then deserting back again.

What we call the present is usually nothing more than a combination of a fragment of the past with a fragment of the future.

We stand at the gates of an important epoch, a time of ferment, when spirit moves forward in a leap, transcends its previous shape and takes on a new one..... A new phase of the spirit is preparing itself. Philosophy especially has to welcome its appearance and acknowledge it, while others, who oppose it impotently, cling the past.

De uil van Minerva vliegt pas uit bij het invallen van de duisternis.

i want to implode— i want to (un)become

between 1957 and 1990 there were more than 150 African heads of state and only six relinquished power voluntarily.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

An epoch is but a swing of the pendullum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

When you go to heaven, Ann, you will be frightfully conscious of your wings for the first year or so. When you meet your relatives there, and they persist in treating you as if you were still a mortal, you will not be able to bear them. You will try to get into a circle which has never known you except as an angel.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

Progress is impossible without change. And those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Progresul este imposibil f?r? schimbare, iar aceia care nu îÅŸi pot schimba felul de a gândi nu pot schimba nimic

Progress is impossible without change