Quotes About Transition

Americans are children who must go somewhere else to grow up, and sometimes die.

Gli americani sono bambini che devono andare da qualche altra parte a crescere, e a volte a morire.

The second section of the book leaves Sony behind, along with Hollywood's past, to look at companies, trends, and people that reveal where the movie business

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

The dead don't think of the living," Ethan said. "That part of their life is over.

There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war. Spring

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't." ? Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings

then went to the small room where Uhtred lay. Except he was no longer Uhtred. He called himself Father Oswald now and I found him propped up in his bed with color in his cheeks.

Sharpe wanted to be ready and so he untied the rag from his musket's lock and stuffed it into the pocket where he kept the ring Mary had given him. The ring, a plain band of worn silver, had belonged to Sergeant Bickerstaff, Mary's husband, but the Sergeant was dead now and Green had taken Bickerstaff's sergeant's stripes and Sharpe his bed.

we had come with the thunder and now left with the dawn.

man raised from the ranks to the officers' mess becomes adept at hiding his ignorance.

His blood changed to falling snow.

We have two lives; the one we learn with and the one after that.

The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years. When it is compressed into fifteen minutes, the pace is too fast, and growing pains are the reult.

A time is coming that is no longer the time that emerged from the death of communism, from the triumph of liberal values, and from the pronounced "end of history," an ending to which I never subscribed but that was beginning to take on a truly sinister face.

Learn then, my son, that death is a benefit to all men: it is the night of that restless day we call by the name of life.

Nicht das ich Hanna vergessen hätte. Aber irgendwann hörte die Erinnerung auf, mich zu begleiten.

Só que fugir não é só correr de um lugar, mas também chegar a outro.

Aber irgendwann hörte die Erinnerung an sie auf, mich zu begleiten. Sie blieb zurück, wie eine Stadt zurückbleibt, wenn der Zug weiterfährt. Sie ist da, irgendwo hinter einem, und man könnte hinfahren und sich ihrer versichern. Aber warum sollte man.

Sie hatten Angst vor dem Abschied, und zugleich versetzte sein Bevorstehen sie in eigentümliche Leichtigkeit. Sie waren nicht mehr im gemeinsamen und noch nicht im eigenen Leben, sie waren im Niemandsland.

Seulement voilà: fuir n'est pas seulement partir, c'est aussi arriver quelque part.

No olvidé a Hanna, desde luego, pero en algún momento su recuerdo dejó de acompañarme a todas partes. Quedó atrás, como queda atrás una ciudad cuando el tren sigue su marcha. Está allí, en algún lugar de nuestra espalda, y si hace falta puede uno coger otro tren e ir a asegurarse de que la ciudad todavía sigue allí. Pero ¿para qué hacer tal cosa?

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so,it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that gaurds the door,and this dragon is religion