Transition quotes

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

We Americans think, in every country in transition, there’s a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

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

I’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.