Quotes About Adjustment

That was the most difficult thing about time travel, remembering where and when one was. She'd forgotten she wasn't still a servant and called Linna "ma'am" twice

You are either going to have to find some other way to live or some other place in the world to do it in.

I began to see how the world must become if I were to live in it.

You cant have your ambient reality put askew without becoming somewhat askew yourself.

It was so easy for an old normal to make way for a new one, so easy to blot the memories of that old normal. That was a skill that had served her well, but in that bite and its honey, she'd counted the cost for the first time.

If you installed something wrong, the system tried to find a way to work around your stupid mistake.

People can numb themselves, get used to anything.

If you don't like it, alter it. If you can't alter it, put up with it.

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization. Such

I didn't like having Grandma there. She slept on a cot in my room and boiled all our suppers. It was unsanitary, she said, the way Daddy drank right out of the water bottle and then put it back in the Frigidaire.

I think . . . the secret is to just settle for the shape your life takes.

So I asked him to go on the night shift. It was a way

All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.

He use' to play till the cock crowed, but that ole cock don't crow nearly so much no mo'.

Time was this place didn't make sense and I could live with it. Either it's changed, or I have.

To be useful in God's hand, a man must be properly adjusted with respect to all three: his position, his life and his warfare. He falls short of God's requirements if he underestimates the importance of any one of them, for each is a sphere in which God would express "the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved" (1:6).

Aw, he's just you know...entrenched, Matt said. Gotta adjust to the perspective and deal from there. Then he added, Not that I'd want him as my dad.... Mike practically sprayed his milk. Dude! Can you imagine? Then Matt gave my dad a slap on the back and said, No way. I'm sticking with my main man here. My mom grinned from across the kitchen and said, Me too. I'd never seen my father cry. And he didn't exactly sit there bawling, but there were definitely tears welling up in his eyes.

The banking industry, corporate life, the mass media, religious ministries, athletics, law schools: Each has its scandals. In nearly every case the pattern is similar: Truth is adjusted or "interpreted," ignored or justified away, to get seemingly urgent results. And deceit then spreads and takes root like a weed.

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Beware that your Northern laurels do not change to Southern willows.

Remember the street car cannot turn out.

I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.