#k

This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a thief in certain periods of his activity. ↗

— Jaroslav Hašek

#svejk #the-good-soldier-svejk #change

Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way. ↗

— Stephen King

#dark #eerie #change

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. ↗

— George Burns

#like #pool #rope #sex #shoot

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ↗

— Frank Abagnale

#looking #other #pinstripes #stop #team

Where had he been? Drinking, obviously. Then she started cataloging all the ways he was worthless. On fool impulse, as his most potent available argument against Lily, Bud stuck his hands into his coat pockets and pulled out the many bundles of hundreds and threw them on the bedspread. If you were honest and stupid, you worked a couple of lifetimes for that kind of money, doled out by the hour in pocket-change amounts by asswipe bosses. ↗

— Charles Frazier

#drunk #jobs #marriage #money #theft

A wave of possessiveness came over him, almost frightening in its intensity. Mine. The thought of another man looking at her was almost enough to make him change his mind about leaving. ↗

— Monica McCarty

#monica-mccarty #patrick #change

The room was full of magical objects, animals, photographs, paintings, strange looking plants and many flying books. I only found this room a few days ago and it seems that it keeps changing every time I come. ↗

— Magda M. Olchawska

#children-books #fairies #illustrated-books #kids #kids-books

These are the Disciplines that can change everything! ↗

— Mark Mullins

#business

If breaking a habit has been hard for you to do, hard for you even to face, then a helping hand is in order. ↗

— Kenneth Schwarz

#breaking-a-habit #breaking-bad-habits #change-a-bad-habit #change-bad-habits #habit

Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it. ↗

— Ian Tattersall

#science #change