#hang

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives. ↗

— Larry Wall

#change #determinism #fatalism #free-will #change

Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

#changed #confident #earned #even #i

Our thoughts create our world. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#stephen-richards-self-help #thinking-for-change #thinking-positive #thinking-with-a-great-mind #thoughts

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films. ↗

— Christopher McQuarrie

#completely #directing #films #i #i write

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed. ↗

— Penelope Ann Miller

#changed #children #family #got #had

I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady. ↗

— Robert Mitchum

#dialogue #i #just #kept #lady

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#command #exchange #gives #his #history

Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#change

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#doing #good #illusion #keep #kind

I didn't know his age or how he liked his tea, I was wearing a terrible coat and I was drunk as a stoat - but this moment felt like it. The one I'd been waiting patiently for since I was a little girl. I'd worked so hard, for so long, at being ok with being single, but all of the things I'd told myself about independence were disappearing rapidly into the cold night. Right now, he felt like the only person who mattered in the whole world. ↗

— Lucy Robinson

#falling-in-love #age