Quotes About Transition

the Stone Age did not come to an end for lack of stone.

A corollary of this perspective is that there is no such thing as a perfect market, an equilibrium or an end state.

in a sorry world there is no safety to be found in standing still.

The fact that heart disease is a symptom of lack of control explains a good deal about its sporadic appearance. It explains why so many people in senior jobs have heart attacks soon after they retire and 'take it easy'. From running offices they often move to lowly and menial jobs (washing dishes, walking the dog) in domestic environments run by their spouses.

The first railways were far more expensive than the existing canals and far less reliable. Only gradually and with time does the new invention bring down its own costs or raise its efficacy to the point where it can match the old.

As Heraclitus put it, 'Nothing endures but change.

The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.

Significant thins shouldn't begin or end at Applebee's.

Maybe that's just what moving on is, not getting over, but skipping over.

It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.

It is especially so when, on some basic, primal level, you realize that the new world in front of you is somehow the place you were meant to be all along. For a little while, all you can do is gape in wonder. And then, if you are very brave, or very foolish, you take your first step. And at some point you realize---maybe then, maybe later---that the person who stepped through the doorway isn't the same person who emerged on the other side.

The key to getting out of a bad relationship is being able to imagine something more fulfilling. --D. Travers Scott

We're growing up, Betsy said aloud. She wasn't even sure she liked it. But it happened, and then it was irrevocable. There was nothing you could do about it except to try and see that you grew up into the kind of human being you wanted to be. I'd like to be a fine one, Betsy thought quickly and urgently.

After Commencement Day, the world! Joe said. With Betsy.

New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly.

We're growing up and I don't like it, said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.

We're growing up, Betsy said aloud. She wasn't even sure she liked it. But it happened, and then it wasn't irrevocable. There was nothing you could do about it except try and see that you grew up into the kind of human being you wanted to be. I'd like to be a fine one, Betsy thought quickly and urgently.

That Jed Wakeman is *nice*, Emily remarked aloud when she reached her own room. He was, she thought, such a happy normal person, so - outgiving. Her eyes chanced to fall on Don's picture inspecting her disdainfully. She took it up and changed it from the front row of pictures to the back. As she did so she wished she could put him that easily into the background of her life.

Constant reading pulled me away from the world of my childhood, the world of my parents.

There is something about early mornings that changes your perceptions subtly. The light is new; no one has put on the defences of the day. All is reset and not quite real yet.

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons....

Last things were so strange. Most people had no control over of what their last acts would be.