Quotes About Adjustment

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.

The plates of the earth had shifted and settled inside her, and the world should know.

But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.

Amadeo had once more been stolen from a way of life to be take to another unexplicable place.

Ryan looked amazingly composed, as if he'd thrown an inner switch to Business Mode; there was nothing bitter or resentful in his attitude.

During all the months when she had been absent, there were so many things I have saved up to tell her, so many bits of news about the house and the neighborhood and friends and work and family, but now they seemed inconsequential. Puny. Move far enough away from an event ans it sort of levels out, so to speak - settles into the general landscape.

Of course it seemed strange without Peter, but at least she could stay out as long as she liked without worrying she was neglecting him.

It was beginning to get a bit cooler out, thank heaven. One thing she was never going to adjust to was how you needed constant air conditioning here. People were dependent upon it in the same way that space travelers were dependent upon their oxygen tanks. It seemed possible that if the electricity went off, they could actually die. When Willa thought about that too long, it made her feel kind of panicky.

It's everything. I hate the heat; I hate the humidity; the accent is atrocious…I don't know what we're doing here." "Well, sweetheart? We're just helping Denise for a few days." "We don't even know Denise!

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.

I can do this forever. It's like adjusting a pair

In many interactions, people seek to change their relative status—either to adjust themselves up in comparison to their peers, or to seek safety by giving up and moving down.

hemorrhaging

career-interruption event

Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I'm not stupid. (Xypher) I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)

Did they practice looking suspicious in mirrors? Welcome to the United States. Don't even think about chewing gum the wrong way.' (Carlos)

Go stand in the corner until you learn to be more positive in your thinking. You need an attitude adjustment, Mr Daeve! Nick My attitude is fine. What I need is an environmental change where I'm not locked in a hovel with an ass Glares at Jaden the Nick---- and a pimple.Caleb Why are you laughing? Nick I'm reveling in the fact he left me off his hate list. Xev

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.

Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.' That about sums up my whole life, doesn't it?

I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.

...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.