Transition Quotes

I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.

"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.

Rather than me sort of characterize the appropriateness or inappropriateness of what Donald Trump is doing at the moment, I think what we have to see is how will the President-elect operate, and how will his team operate, when they've been fully briefed on all these issues, they have their hands on all the levers of government, and they've got to start making decisions.

I'm sorry to see it end.

Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

[This upset] means that means Donald Trump now has to transition to governance.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.

Getting out of one car and getting into another

After directing the first film it feels kind of tricky being back to being in front of the camera, because I've always got one eye over there, kind of thinking of what they are doing, and how the shot is being composed. I think it takes a couple of films to just get back to just being an actor.

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

When I turn over the keys to the president-elect, America will be much stronger than it was when I came into office.

My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.

Discharge my followers; let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president. The peaceful transition of power is what will separate this country from every other country in the world.

We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.