Version Control Quotes

#1. Time travel would give humanity the ability to alter the past and prune the tree of all possible futures of those branches that had been infected by evil; with enough revisions humans would eventually bring about the one version of history that was fully good.

Dexter Palmer

#2. He felt that race was not a characteristic that was a part of his identity, but one that was projected upon him by the gaze of others who looked on him; as such it was ephemeral, there and gone as soon as the gaze was broken.

Dexter Palmer

#3. Everything is as it should be; all is in its place. This is what Philip Steiner thinks.

Dexter Palmer

#4. He pulled out his wallet and extracted a twenty-dollar bill, fastidiously folding it in half so that the crease cut across the face of Theodore Roosevelt, with its shining spectacles and its Chesire Cat grin.

Dexter Palmer

#5. There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

Rebecca Hall

#6. She drank the glass with breakfast and poured herself another. By the time she'd gotten Sean off to school (second grade) the edges had been taken off her thoughts and the world seemed as it should be: not too real, but real enough.

Dexter Palmer

#7. You cannot control anyone but yourself in this life, and that means you ultimately have the choice in whether you would like life's struggles to define you and keep you down, or would you like them to fuel you to be the very best version of you that you can be.

L.K. Elliott

#8. If the future changed, and the time traveler we're talking about was from that future, and was the product of events that created that future, why wouldn't the time traveler also change when those events changed?

Dexter Palmer

#9. It was hard to know what direction to take when you suddenly found yourself in a future different from the one you'd expected to be in the day before.

Dexter Palmer

#10. Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at

Nora Ephron

#11. I can't comprehend why any black man with even a lick of sense would have the slightest bit of interest in time travel. Going backward in time? A black man? You have got to be out of your mind.

Dexter Palmer

#12. But life isn't neat the way a story is. And if you try to pretend it is, then you just make yourself unhappy, or screw yourself over.

Dexter Palmer

#13. I like Carson. I really like Carson. I can hand an idea to him that's still a little rough, and he can turn it over and tumble it and hand it back to me shining. And I can do the same for him.

Dexter Palmer

#14. If everyone could get on the same page and realize that we live in the future, we wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit.

Dexter Palmer

#15. Bond in 'Goldeneye' is pretty much a set character. To be honest, he's another version of Connery, and Connery was terrific. How many submarines can you blow up? How many control rooms are evaporating?

Martin Campbell

#16. The causality violation device may be doing something else. May have already done it. Something wonderful and terrible.

Dexter Palmer

#17. Nothing is as it should be. Everything is upside down.

But I know I can fix this. I can do it.

Dexter Palmer

#18. Today is your day. The day you take control to become the best version of you.

Tony Curl

#19. MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

Christopher Hitchens

#20. Later - how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you - Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.

Dexter Palmer

#21. We're in a time machine, Terence, you and I, right now. It's stuck in one gear and it's slow as hell, but it works. It's bringing us into the future. And I think that future might actually be good. I think it might be okay.

Dexter Palmer

#22. In an interview, I lose control even of what I am, for it is the interviewer who edits me, finally, into what he thinks I am, and never have I been happy with someone else's version of my life after that person has spent an entire two or three hours fathoming it.

Mark Helprin

#23. Develop strength and control at an early age and embrace love coupled with a selfless heart. Only then, will you find true peace in your heart and begin the journey to the best version of yourself and the best days of your life.

Tony Gaskins

#24. Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself.

Tony Gaskins

#25. And so Rebecca consigned herself to, not ignorance, but a judicious incuriosity: she decided, for the time being, to live with the constant, cryptic reminders that the scope of another person's soul could never be fully surveyed.

Dexter Palmer

#26. But who, in these modern times, slept well?

Dexter Palmer

#27. Above all else, trust that you don't have to control your partner, because your partner, given the freedom to do anything, will want to cherish and support you. And always, always move in the direction of greatest courage, toward the best possible version of yourself. Strong,

Franklin Veaux

#28. As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes.

Dexter Palmer

#29. The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#30. This is the last moment of contentment untainted by sorrow, when the brain hesitates before delivering the message to the heart that it knows it must.

Dexter Palmer

#31. That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

Chuck Palahniuk