“if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist”
Yukio Mishima book The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
“if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist”
Yukio Mishima book The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering…”
Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road
Source: Revolutionary Road
“Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
“Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.”
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: Heartbreaker
“What could not be changed must be endured.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Variant: What could not be changed must be endured.
Source: New Spring (January 2004), Chapter 1: The Hook. p. 5
“Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.”
Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist
“Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.”
Kate DiCamillo book Flora & Ulysses
Source: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Twelve: The Forces of Evil, p. 39
Nigel Farage (1964) British politician and former commodity broker
Interview in the Irish Times newspaper, 17 May 2012. Anti-treaty campaign claims single currency may collapse http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0517/1224316240473.html <br class="br">2012
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 120