Quotes About Adjustment

My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.

A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.

Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.

Well, we'll know better next time.

In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison," written when she was eighty, she says she passed through a painful period of longing for her own people before she began to identify as a Seneca, but within four years—the same period during which Olive was with the Mohaves—"I had become so accustomed to their mode of living, habits, and dispositions, that my anxiety to get away …had almost subsided. 9 She

There is nothing people cannot get accustomed to, even to a life like mine, and so I must be careful, very careful indeed, not to become accustomed to it myself.

Perhaps the sadness of a divorce doesn't actually disappear, she realized. Instead you have to incorporate it, learn to coexist with it

we need to do more than just whine about that. We need to course-correct.

There are some people, if you can only get to learn the length of their feet, you can always fit them with shoes afterwards.

He has gone, Mamma,' she said, as she entered the breakfast-room. 'And now we'll go back to our work-a-day ways. It has been all Sunday for me the last six weeks.

CHAPTER LXIII CHANGES AT BRAGTON

it isn't easy to come down from affluence to poverty.

Would she ever stop feeling like a colonist on the moon?

Work is the best remedy for any shock

There's no use in talking about the plan, because of course nothing went the way it was supposed to.

Like they say—you get used to troubles.

Come to think of it—what are we going to do with our old cantor? We just got a new one, you know. We needed him like a hole in the head.

we can never give up; we only exchange one thing for another

But I wonder about Chapter Twenty. Will there be the deuce to play? . . . Just because life is more easy and human here, I feel more out of it.