Quotes About Adjustment

We are scaling down" is a painful statement to make to friends or family.

wasn't as pleasant lately, Sam thought, as he made his way through the back entry to the detectives' division. There weren't so many people there

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

Hillary: Live With It' is no rallying cry.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

James Dale Davidson

After the initial shock, nothing was strange anymore. Anything could become normal.

Intelligence normally entails two interrelated but somewhat different components. The first involves effective adaptation to an environment.

Without concrete signs of divine presence in the lives of the poor, the gospel becomes simply an opiate; rather than liberating the powerless from humiliation and suffering, the gospel becomes a drug that helps them adjust to this world by looking for "pie in the sky.

It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. Nor, in many cases, can such an adjustment be made at all without taking into view indirect and remote considerations, which will rarely prevail over the immediate interest which one party may find in disregarding the rights of another or the good of the whole.

We were a religious sect consisting of two people, and now half the congregation was gone. There would be no closure, no healing. I would simply adjust myself to a new and severely depleted reality. The world would come to an end, as it always does, one world at a time.

He's gonna be fine," I confirmed. Can we see him?" Iggy asked. Ig, I hate to break it to you, but you're blind.

In the real world, few plans proceeded as planned. For a mission to succeed, a plan had to be liquid, capable of changing at a moment's notice.

If you can't plan it in advance, you have to see how it goes as you do it

Roosevelt declared, arguing that "the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.

a family wanting no more than to live without challenge or drama could easily find a quiet street, and peace, provided they were fortunate enough to live in a comparatively sheltered and favoured geographical area, and provided they were able to make the mental adjustment to relegate war - and its consequences - into something that happened elsewhere and did not affect them; or something that had happened to them, but between such and such dates, and then taken itself off.

That's what life is, getting used to things that are really intolerable…" Her eyes reddened and filled, and again she determinedly blinked them clear.

That's what life is, getting used to things that are really intolerable.

That's what life is, getting used to things that are really intolerable…

He is not immutable. No man can be.

Gabriel thinks a lot of you.' 'I thought I talked too much for his comfort,' said Lymond. 'But I hear he has a ravishing sister. I must mend my ways.

And you can't adjust to bastardy?' He said evenly, 'Give me, perhaps, until tomorrow instead of today to achieve it.

It's like trying to explain to the Amazon River, the Mississippi, the Congo, and the Nile how the coming of the Atlantic Ocean will affect them. The first thing to understand is that river rules will no longer apply.

Shaving mirror-pointing at the ceiling. He adjusted it. For a moment it reflected a second bulldozer through the bathroom window. Properly adjusted, it reflected Arthur Dent's bristles.