Quotes About Adjustment

As soon as you start figuring out what you're going to do, something will interrupt it.

Prayer, then, begins by an intellectual adjustment.

The change came a long way back, but at first it didn't show. The manner remains intact for some time after the morale cracks.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations

Each season is a forerunner of the next, and as the earth revolves, we learn to adjust, and consent to, the alterations.

supposed he'd get used to the smell eventually, even though he

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Life...is like the chameleon, changing colour all the time.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

Guys, please, one life-changing shock at a time, I felt like saying.

Cultural shock' is an academic word for 'I don't like it here'.

Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid in their houses, but a very short while later, if all seemed quiet, they came out again and started selling each other potatoes.

The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.

Humans are strange, adaptable animals, and eventually get used to anything, even the impossible or unbearable. ... Terror is tiring, and difficult to keep up indefinitely, so sooner or later it must be replaced with something more practical.

People's personalities took up space, he sometimes thought. When they were trapped in a house or a job or a school together, they rubbed up against each other, squeaked like balloons, and made sparks. Ryan's parents both had large, gleaming, hot-air-balloon personalities. Sometimes it was hard to fit them into the same house, and Ryan had learned the art of suddenly making himself take up less space, demand less, so that his parents were not chafing against each other as much.

What strange beasts people are , she thought. We adjust to everything so quickly. Perhaps we would even get used to Hell.

She felt like an amputee, reaching out reflexively with an arm she no longer had.

We were given one country and we've set up in another.

I was sad and lonely...but it was due to my own awkwardness..so I could stand it... and I even got used to it.

He used to be a German, but he completely recovered.

Olivia turned off the ignition. Matt checked his face in the visor mirror. He looked like hell. Lawrence was right. What with the bandage wrapped around his head, he did resemble the soldier playing the flute in Willard's Spirit of '76.

We'll try this first. If it doesn't work, we'll try something else. That's life, isn't it?

they've never learned to live in this one

I challenge us to change, because as Charles Darwin once observed, "It is not the strongest species that will survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.