Quotes About Transition

A story means, at the highest level, not by what it concludes but by how it proceeds.

My parents first rented a tiny apartment on Chapel Street with their black standard poodle, Turbo. When I arrived, they had to move out because the landlord allowed dogs but not babies. They found a place on Edwards Street, where the owner allowed babies but not dogs. Fortunately, I made the cut and Turbo went to live at Grove Lane.

IN THE PRESIDENTIAL race of 1968, Richard Nixon defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who had stepped forward to run when LBJ shocked the country by declining to seek reelection. Nixon carried thirty-two states and more than three hundred electoral votes. He took his oath of office on January 20, 1969. An hour later, LBJ departed the nation's capital, where he had been a fixture since his election to Congress in 1937. He left with few friends.

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783)

Nixon became the first (and to date, only) former Vice President to be elected President (every other Vice President who moved into the Presidency either succeeded upon his predecessor's death, or won election directly from the Vice Presidency).

Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.

Life will dissolve itself in death, rivers in the sea, and the known in the unknown.

Il n'y a pas de désordre, il y a substitution à un ordre attendu ou aimé d'un autre ordre dont on n'a que faire ou dont on a à souffrir.

No tengo otra opción que evocar lo que demasiado tiempo llamé lo irrevocable; lo que fue, lo que se detuvo, lo que fue clausurado: eso que sin duda fue para no ser más hoy, pero que fue también para que yo sea todavía

The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.

Are you well? You look a trifle peaked." "If I do, it is because black doesn't become me. I mean to lighten my mourning, and have ordered a charming gray gown." "You are mistaken." "What, in going into half-mourning?" "No, in thinking black does not become you.

But the very qualities which had fascinated Denville in the girl offended him in the wife..

the dark night of the soul is an ongoing transition from compulsively trying to control one's life toward a trusting freedom and openness to God and the real situations of life.

Liberation, whether experienced pleasurably or painfully, always involves relinquishment, some kind of loss.

Now Mrs. Greensleeve, who knew that she was going to die, thought of death in the same way a nightbound wanderer in the rain looks forward to a soft bed.

In the evening of his life, January was suddenly plunged into an early night. He went stone blind.

The absence of someone comes like a new season, first only in pieces: you see the absence in them long before they leave.

Night Is Turned into Day

The children will go back to school. Sam and Annie can move into this house. Maggie can stay happily with Jane. And best of all, I have a sister again.

The children will go back to school. Sam and Annie can move into this house.

The seam in between is fenceless.

That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

I have gone on beginning...