Quotes about Transition
The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
- Herman Melville
A man going uphill may be at the same level as another man going down hill; but they are facing different ways and have different destinies. Our world, passing out of the old Paganism of Greece and Rome towards the consummation of Christendom and a Catholic civilization from which we all derive, is the very negation of the same world leaving the light of its ancestral religion and sliding back into the dark.
- Hilaire Belloc
The reason the Dead do not return nowadays is the boredom of it.
- Hilaire Belloc
To arrive in a city like Milan as a young man was a huge challenge.
- Javier Zanetti
As a young man, I had a strong faith in God. It dwindled and I pretty much abandoned it when I went to college. Basically, what I tell everybody is what took over my life was my pride.
- Ted DiBiase Sr.
For a kid that just played for Oviedo, to then going to play for a team like Real Madrid, it felt fantastic. But being taken out of my family home and moving away alone, into the residence Madrid have for young players, it was a bit difficult. But as time passed, I got used to it.
- Juan Mata
It's tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film.
- Gia Coppola
Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.
- John Piper
Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.
- John Piper
Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.
- Marianne Williamson
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
- Washington Irving
The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.
- Kendrick Lamar