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«Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
peaceful, pleasant, transition, transitions, troublesome
«The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and the establishment of the new, constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism»
Author: John C. Calhoun
| Keywords:
constitutes, establishment, fanaticism, fierce, formation, formations, The Establishment, transition
«Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.»
Author: William Bridges
| Keywords:
disappointment, disenchantment, minor, shock, signal, signaling, transition, transitions
«There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
bring forth, continued, hangs, incident, incidents, link, sagacity, trace, transition, unconnected
«Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
alas, ambush, ambushes, detail, detain, detained, detour, detours, fairy, ideally, insights, In The Moment, painter, processes, reflective, swiftly, tale, The Detours, transformed, transition, transitions, unable, waits, work in progress
«In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
marked, oncoming, transition, well-marked
«We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.»
Author: Dick Cheney
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
call for, Iraqi, Iraq In, The United Nations, transition, United Nations
«Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
emerge, invariably, periods, transition
«History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
appall, appalled, appalling, appalls, clamor, clamoring, period, record, social, strident, tragedy, transition, transitions
«Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
energize, energized, energizes, energizing, secure, transition, transitions
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