Quotes About Transition

They lay blinking their dusty eyelids. ...Montag sat up. He did not move any further, however. The other men did likewise. The sun was touching the black horizon with a faint red tip.

Doesn't an old thing always know when a new thing comes?

The sound of its death came after.

Before the bus had run another fifty yards on the highway, its destination would be meaningless, and its point of departure changed from metropolis to junkyard.

Se non ci ascolteranno, dovremo aspettare ancora. Insegneremo i libri ai nostri figli, oralmente, e i figli a loro volta li passeranno ad altri. In questo modo molto sarà perduto, è chiaro. Ma non si può costringere la gente ad ascoltare: devono arrivarci da soli, quando è il momento, e allora domandarsi cosa è successo e perché il mondo è scoppiato sotto i loro piedi. Perché così non può durare.

The boy looked down at his feet deep in the rivers, in the fields of wheat, in the wind that already was rushing him out of the town. He looked up at the old man, his eyes burning, his mouth moving, but no sound came out.

Even now he could feel the start of the long journey, the leave taking, the going away from the self he had been.

It was indeed a time between, one second their thoughts all brambled airedale, the next all silken slumbering cat. It

Why,' said Montag slowly, 'we've stopped in front of my house.

His eyes took on a different color. It was a subtle shift, a flex, like a man stepping out from the shade of a tree into sunlight on a cloudy day.

And if we start using Celsius in the next few years, I will be severely disappointed.

Destruction before Creation.

Trebuie s? fim dispu?i s? renun??m la via?a pe care ne-am planificat-o, pentru a o putea tr?i pe cea care ne a?teapt?.

I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

He feels it himself, and says often that he is 'preparing to leave all this; preparing to leave...' while he waves his hand sadly at his butterflies.

It seems to me that all my life before that momentous day is infinitely remote, a fading memory of light-hearted youth, something on the other side of a shadow.

Conrad regarded the formation of a representative government in Russia as unfeasible and foresaw a transition from autocracy to dictatorship.

Thus in the course of years he was known successively in Bombay, in Calcutta, in Rangoon, in Penang, in Batavia—and in each of these halting-places was just Jim the water-clerk.

He was different; innocent of heart, and full of good will, which nobody wanted, this castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an immense ignorance from his future.

Antes que una reforma económica habrá que hacer una reforma política.

nuestros fracasos económicos: al gestionar adecuadamente la transición de una economía industrial a otra de servicios, al controlar el sector financiero, al manejar como es debido la globalización y sus consecuencias y, lo más importante, al responder a la desigualdad creciente. Parece que evolucionamos de manera resuelta hacia una economía y una democracia del 1 por ciento, por el 1 por ciento y para el 1 por ciento.

Nothing we have, no one in our lives, no state of mind is exempt from change.

I have some decades to spare. Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?