Quotes About Adjustment

How will you handle a large infusion of new capital or a large withdrawal?

Charles Darwin found that survival is determined by the ability to adapt to circumstances.

To destroy abuses is not enough; habits must be changed.

To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there.

Sometimes a mood changes on its own... Sometimes it needs a shove.

Leni shrugged. She didn't know exactly what to say, or how to say it without revealing too much. "He has—nightmares—and bad weather can set him off. Sometimes. But he hasn't had a nightmare since we moved here. So maybe he's better.

The first week without Jolene almost drove Michael into the ground. He'd had no idea how much there was to do around the house and with the kids.

We didn't need a new house after all. When something isn't working, you don't always need to tear down the whole structure. Sometimes you just pull down a wall, reinvent, put some new skin on the old bones. And it's lovely.

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.

You can get used to things going well, but you're never prepared for something going wrong.

History often has a difficult time catching up to the events it records.

Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her." Will looked interested. "I think she should try that out now and see what happens.

Sorry. Was it awful?" "Being a rat? No. First it was disorienting. I was suddenly at ankle-level with everyone. I thought I'd drunk a shrinking potion, but I couldn't figure out why I had this urge to chew used gum wrappers.

So are you officially moved in to her place yet, or just staying over there every night?

Nothing is static; things always change. The best you can do is change along with them and work with what you have.

I don't know what she's going to do when I leave to go home, actually. She's gotten really used to having me around." "Me too," Conor said. Then he cleared his throat loudly. "You're, you know, kind of blending in here. With the furniture." "Thanks. I guess." I looked behind me at the tables and chairs. I didn't see any similarities, but whatever.

We always say we'll never get used to change, but then the change happens and we do.

Life just rolls on, adjusting to whatever was subtracted.

Whatever you think your shortcomings are…you can't just lock yourself in the house so no one can notice or comment. We all have to take ourselves out into the world, flaws and all. And find a way to make the adjustment.

We all have to take ourselves out into the world, flaws and all. And find a way to make the adjustment.

We always say we'll never get used to change, but then the change happens and we do." "See?

Immediately he felt a pushback against sharing. These other people were at home. He was not. They'd had time to adjust to the energy of the room and the people, which were familiar to begin with. He had not. He pushed the feeling away again and did it anyway. "My

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.