Quotes About Adaptation

You expect things to change, or people to change; but it's silly, isn't it? Because people and things don't change. Not really. You just have to get used to them.

But Helen, Helen,' I said, 'if they expect it to be hard, why don't they change things, to allow it to be easier?

I'm like a weather-vane, I start twitching when the wind's on the turn.

That week was a terrible one. I had got my own mind back, the house seemed crueller than ever, and I saw how far I had sunk before in growing used to it.

Richard Rivers has come into Briar like a spore of yeast into dough, changing it utterly.

rooms seemed changed. I took to

Everything has changed. Nothing has changed, at all. She has put back my flesh; but flesh will close, will seal, will scar and harden.

Eppure, anche membra di cera devono cedere alla fine al calore delle mani che le muovono. Arriva una notte in cui, finalmente, mi arrendo alle sue.

I wasn't used to looking ahead. Not like Jack. Maybe that was why he had that ready grin. I could see through the dust, but he could see through time, and he didn't even need magic to do it.

Your life got busy with work and you got used to pulling away, and I filled my life up with the children and got used to biting my tongue. That's how we derailed.

if you plant yourself anywhere in the ground for long enough you start to take root

AD/HD is such a full-time job that some women have never had the opportunity to stop and figure out a way of doing things differently. They haven't discovered how to change the rules, what it means to feel comfortable, or how to live without feeling overwhelmed. They just don't have the concept.

We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

In the politics of human life, consistency is not a virtue.

Somewhere in the world there is a magical book. What does this book do? It simply changes itself to become the book you most need at this point in your life.

PART OF THE GENIUS of genuine Christianity is that each generation has to think it through afresh.

The question we need to ask today is this, and this question strikes to the heart of how we read the Bible: Do we seek to retrieve that cultural world and those cultural expressions, or do we live the same gospel in a different way in a different day?

The entire sweep of the Bible teaches that Christians in non-Christian environments are not to be worried so much about changing their environments as they are to remain faithful in whatever kind of environment they find themselves.

We aren't called to live first-century lives in the twenty-first century, but twenty-first-century lives as we walk in the light of the revelation God gave to us in the first century.

Such practices were the way to "get along," the way to belong, the way to move up in society, and the way to be "in" for that culture and time. It required daily exercise in resistance not to go along.

David Brooks, commenting on the workplace, once said, "Never underestimate the power of the environment you work in to gradually transform who you are. When you choose to work at a certain company, you are turning yourself into the sort of person who works in that company

The gospel is capable and designed to strike home in every culture, in every age, and in every language.

Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.