#hang

...things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life. ↗

— Lesley Kagen

#change

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#change

We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#rhine-dystopian #sever #change

Change happens very slow and very sudden. ↗

— Dorothy Bryant

#feminist #metaphysics #science-fiction #change

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#change

well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded -Diana, Princess of Wales ↗

— Cathy Lowne

#change

In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and call a whole class of nuclear missiles Peace Keepers! ↗

— Jack Kornfield

#change

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#inspirational #life #change

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#cyberpunk #future #science-fiction #change

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#imagination #change