“When the attentions change / the jungle
leaps in even the stones are split
they rive”
Charles Olson (1910–1970) American writer
Part I, 3
The Kingfishers (1950)
Her reflective note. [Data India, http://books.google.com/books?id=bn9DAAAAYAAJ, 2007, Press Institute of India]
“When the attentions change / the jungle
leaps in even the stones are split
they rive”
Charles Olson (1910–1970) American writer
Part I, 3
The Kingfishers (1950)
“Even the gods cannot change destiny.”
Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer
Source: Norse Mythology (2017), Chapter 14, “The Death of Balder” (p. 234)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Inaugural address (1965)
Context: For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For this generation, the choice must be our own. [... ] Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.
Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer
Variant: A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.
Source: The Human Revolution
Robert S. McNamara (1916–2009) American businessman and Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara (1967); quoted in: Bruce Rich (1994) Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development, p. 83