imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were…

“Without a doubt. But imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness.”

— Amor Towles

It's impossible to know who Donald might have been under different circumstances and with different parents.

— Mary L. Trump

“My own circumstances may be very different from yours; you may not have an opportunity to be interviewed on television or write a book,…

— Morris Schwartz

“So I’m just learning more and more that circumstances can be very different from place to place but culture is universal. you know, humans…

— Alex Day

“people were the same wherever you went, from the most primitive conditions to the wealthiest homes. The circumstances may be different, the cultures and…

— Lisa Hartley

“Of course it might have been some other city, had circumstances been different and the time been different and had I been different, might…

— Joan Didion

“No man can claim that he would have power if his life or circumstances were different.”

— Théun Mares

You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of…

— J.H. Wyman

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

— Arthur Golden

“Knowing how to make a life mean something, to wring out its worth when it was right there in one’s hands instead of just…

— Deborah Reed

What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't…

— Philip Treacy

I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all…

— Carrie Fisher

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it…

— John Green

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

— Sarah Addison Allen

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

— Will Hobbs