Quotes About Adjustment

We live on a two week cycle in our house so if I go away for two weeks, it's too long. And if I'm home for two weeks, it's too long.

I've always been the type to know that if I'm getting off the track, I know, 'OK, it's time to tighten up.' I feel like I can see it before it comes.

The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.

Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.

When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you.

The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

And that was my homecoming. It was fine, I guess. Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning. Even if it hurts, it's good.

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.

Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

You forget who submits, Eva," he said gruffly. "I've given up control for you. I've bent and adjusted for you. I'll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can't be tamed or topped. Don't mistake indulgence for weakness.

Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.

Cal's eyes are still getting used to looking this far, after all those years of city blocks. Landscape is one of the few things he knows of where the reality doesn't let you down. The West of Ireland looked beautiful on the internet; from right smack in the middle of it, it looks even better.

At first he wondered if he might be too old to get accustomed to it at all, but his body has come through for him.

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

I didn't want a fresh start, but maybe a little breathing room would be nice.

When something happens that eclipses the imaginable, it changes a person. It's like the difference between a raw egg and a scrambled egg. It's the same thing, but it's not the same at all.