#or

All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#truth #change

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#adaptation #bending #breaking #change #chi-ro-jin

...and just so you know, I'm not changing my shirts in front of you for a year for this." His shocked gasp was rewarding enough. ↗

— R.L. Mathewson

#change

He heard Louis’ voice before he saw him. “Beautiful women?” he was saying. Then the door opened and the woman reappeared, holding the wooden lion between her arms. Oliver noticed that her hair was drawn across her face now. “Where are they? Have they come to see the -- Oliver!” “Hello, Louis,” Oliver said, giving the lion a small wave. Louis pointed a finger at him. “He’s no beautiful woman!” he said indignantly. Then he noticed Sophie and Julia and his whole attitude changed. He dropped his voice to a husky tone. “Why, hello there, ladies. ↗

— Zeinab Alayan

#attitude

Every so often an author comes along and changes the world. I am not that author! ↗

— Rachel Rueben

#change

One day u will be the message...a message for those who still alive... ↗

— Fayrouz Yasser

#death #فيروزيات #change

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails…and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever.” — Anonymous Curse on Book Theives from the Monaster of San Pedro, Barcelona, Spain ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#essays #literature #quotes-to-live-by #change

Do you know why I love mathematics?" "Because it blew your mind for free when you couldn't get drugs?" Eccles snorted in surprise. "Well, yes, but there's another reason. ↗

— Brendan Halpin

#change

History made when mindset changed. ↗

— Toba Beta

#history #mindset #change

She wished he could make her somehow indelibly his; that they were still children so they could cut their fingers and mingle their blood and know this meant something. She longed for some transformation more lasting than that wrought by the law and his name, some visceral change he might effect in her so that anyone on the street with one glance would know she was his. ↗

— Meredith Duran

#transformation #change