Source: Gone with the Wind
“Whilst something is unknown, it could be anything. It could be the worst thing ever and usually when something starts to happen. You realise it’s not so bad.”
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Michael Marshall Smith
(1965) British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer
Source: The Lonely Dead (2004), Ch. 20
“Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.”
Source: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Twelve: The Forces of Evil, p. 39
“Something doesn't start
at its usual time.
Something doesn't happen
as it should.”
Wisława Szymborska
(1923–2012) Polish writer
"Cat in an Empty Apartment"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The End and the Beginning (1993)
Context: Something doesn't start
at its usual time.
Something doesn't happen
as it should.
Someone was always, always here,
then suddenly disappeared
and stubbornly stays disappeared.
Arthur James Balfour
(1848–1930) British Conservative politician and statesman
Theism and humanism
Context: Everything that happened, good or bad, would subtract something from the lessening store of useful energy, till a time arrived when nothing could happen any more, and the universe, frozen into eternal repose, would for ever be as if it were not. /.../ The physical course of nature does not merely fail to indicate design, it seems loudly to proclaim its absence.
“When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course.”
Jonas Salk
(1914–1995) Inventor of polio vaccine
The Open Mind interview (1985)
Context: When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better — ever so much slightly better — at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.
Source: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke