Quotes About Alternate

For a long time, I was very unhappy, very unhappy indeed. ... occasions now and then -- extremely desolate occasions -- when you think to yourself: What a terrible mistake I've made with my life. And you get to thinking about a different life, a better life you might have had.

There was another life that i might have had, but i am having this one...

Continuation of the outbreak depended on the likelihood of encounters between people who were infectious and people who could be infected. This idea became known as the "mass action principle." It was all about math. The same year, 1906, a Scottish physician named John Brownlee proposed an alternate view, contrary to Hamer's. Brownlee worked as a clinician and hospital administrator

The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.

The price we pay is the path not taken, that which we give up.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

There's always a parallel story. The paths not taken go on in our heads.

Sometimes people just need to think about something else.

I'll live in another world, then.

I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.

Before that, there was no official ship History. The only official records were the ship's logs." He sighed heavily, shaking his head. "But they were all destroyed. Which is why the History was begun, to provide an alternate

Human history is littered with might-have-beens.

We all have alternate lives we might have lived had we made different decisions, including decisions about whom to marry. I

If there's a zeppelin, it's alternate history. If there's a rocketship, it's science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it's fantasy. A book with swords and horses in it can be turned into science fiction by adding a rocketship to the mix. If a book has a rocketship in it, the only thing that can turn it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.

A guy walks into a bar, and says to the barman: 'Gimme one whiskey for myself and ten billion for all my possible alternate selves.' - Professor Charles Smart

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

If it appears to be the main route from a town to a city, that's bad. The best ones always connect nowhere with nowhere and have an alternate that gets you there quicker.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taking.

I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.