#transition

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas. ↗

— Saul Williams

#already #am #any #birth #great

It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#because #big #big shoes #century #easy

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#am #basic #belief #brings #democracy

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#death #peaceful #pleasant #transition #troublesome

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#architecture #art #civilization #first #first time

It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like. ↗

— Sean Booth

#creates #curves #dictate #difference #involving

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both. ↗

— John Callahan

#between #bookstores #both #caught #competing

Life is one big transition. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#life #transition

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#advantage #allow #change #embrace #enjoy

I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government. ↗

— Robert Kocharian

#assure #government #honest #i #job