Quotes About Adaptation

It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

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

We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.

Water never waits. It changes shape and floes around things, and finds the secret paths no one else thought about __ the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth, it can put out fire; it can wear a piece of metal down and can sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can'survive without being nurtured by water.

A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. If I'd never met Mr. Tanaka, my life would have been a simple stream flowing from our tipsy house to the ocean. Mr. Tanaka changed all that when he sent me out into the world.

But she told me I was like water..Water can carve its way through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill , going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course

Llevamos nuestras vidas como el agua que corre colina abajo, más o menos en una dirección, hasta que damos con algo que nos obliga a encontrar un nuevo curso.

Mi živimo svoj život kao voda koja te?e nizbrdo, kre?u?i se manje ili više u istom pravcu dok ne pljusnemo u nešto što nas prisili promijeniti smjer.

We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I had never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.

M?s savu dz?vi nodz?vojam k? ?dens, kas pl?st lejup pa kalnu, pl?stam vien? virzien?, l?dz atsitamies pret kaut ko, kas spiež m?s mekl?t jaunu virzienu.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things; but when I pictured Mameha dancing her slow lament, hidden from the eyes of her husband and his mistress, I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

Incluso las rocas terminan erosionándose con la lluvia.

L'acqua si scava la strada attraverso la pietra, e quando è intrappolata, l'acqua si crea un nuovo varco. L'acqua è potente: spegne il fuoco, scava la pietra, distrugge il ferro.

Trgovac koji ostavlja otvorene prozore trgovine ne može se ljutiti na kišu koja mu je uništila robu.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

Every time I happened to read an account in the newspaper of some little shop that had made, say, bicycle parts before the war, and was now back in business almost as though the war had never happened, I had to tell myself that if our entire nation could emerge from its own dark valley, there was certainly hope that I could emerge from mine.

A shopkeeper who leaves his window open can hardly be angry at the rainstorm for ruining his wares.

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.