Quotes About Adjustment

Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.

I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.

We must take things as we find them in this world.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Well, it rained mortar and masonry the rest of the week.  This was the report; but probably the facts would have modified it.

Der einzige Mensch, der sich vernünftig verhält, ist mein Schneider. Er nimmt jedes mal Maß, wenn er mich sieht, während alle anderen immer wieder die alten Maßstäbe anlegen.

However, I assured her that if he found he couldn't stand it I would fix him so that he could.

The only person who likes change is a wet baby.

Make the best o' things the way you find 'em..

Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.

No puedes quedarte ahí sentado esperando que el nuevo mundo se adapte a ti, eres tú el que tiene que adaptarse....

Ahí radicaba el problema. La vida había dado un giro de ciento ochenta grados y, sin embargo, era esencial que actuaran como si nada hubiera ocurrido. Imagínate que tienes que sonreír después de recibir un bofetón. Y luego imagínate que tienes que hacerlo las veinticuatro horas del día.

That is the best I can do—watch it fall into line with everything else I spectated during that time.

When I was little, Tato told me the story of a frog that was put in a pot of cool water. The pot was put on the stove to simmer, but it heated so gradually that the frog didn't realize it was being cooked until too late. That's how I felt about the Commandant and his plans for Viteretz. Each of his actions was worse than the last, but then we adjusted.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.

Tis what marriage is all about, madam, he said. Have you not realized it? 'Tis about discovering unknown facets of the character and experience and taste of one's spouse and learning to adjust one's life accordingly. 'Tis learning to hope that one's spouse is doing the same thing.

One of the most horrible realities about the death of someone closely related, she remembered, was the necessity of going on almost immediately with the trivialities of living. As though nothing of any real significance had changed.

Las cosas pasan, Maggie. Lo único que podemos hacer es adaptarnos a las vicisitudes de la vida.

Siempre hay que buscar una posible alternativa y estar preparado para ella.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

Well, dear, life is a casting off. It's always that way.

But Kama the Generous could not refuse his mother what she asked of him. So he modified the promise. Equivocated. Made a small adjustment, took a somewhat altered oath.

Mientras otros chicos de su edad aprendían otras cosas, Estha y Rahel aprendieron cómo la historia negocia sus condiciones y ajusta las cuentas a aquellos que violan sus leyes. Oyeron su ruido sordo y nauseabundo. Olieron su olor y nunca lo olvidaron.