Quotes About Adaptation

We are all descended from survivors, and survivors were the chubby ones.

It's not just that people learn to tolerate beetroot: they switch from dislike to adoration.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.

In one story, he describes a man who is blind in one eye, myopic in the other, too poor to buy eyeglasses, who wears only the frames, with no lenses. When asked why he replies: "It's better than nothing." As

A life to live is not a field to cross; yet, somehow, in her chaotic way, Varya was able to keep the house going.

I walk down the street, I fall down a hole. It takes me forever to figure out how to climb out. I walk down the street, fall down a hole, this time I know how to get out. I walk down the street, I walk around the hole. Next time I walk down a different street!

I love that you wanted to try. But after we've done everything we can, we have to accept things the way they are and make the most of what we have.

Love takes tweaking.

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The young adults of the time and their parents and pundits all wrung their hands. But they needn't have. "Those who did best tended to accept change, not to berate themselves for breaking with tradition."41

Life is constant change, and nowhere is this more marked than in a village which used to be a centre of work and is now largely an escape from it.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have left the vulgar stuff alone.

The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be.

You see kids, little boys, practicing the jeers of their television heroes--they shape themselves on such models. It's a strange conformity to what's thrust at them; they adopt it and adapt it and play with it.

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

It was a good plan, and like all plans since the dawn of time, this would fail to survive contact with real life.

This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.

I texted Nightingale to let him know our change in disposition and then I picked up my Pliny, because nothing says stuck all alone in your flat like a Roman know-it-all

Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.

Abigail stared suspiciously at Lesley. "Why are you wearing a mask?" she asked. "Because my face fell off," said Lesley. Abigail considered this for a moment and then nodded. "Okay," she said.

Whatever you see, he'd said, take as long a look as you need to get used to it, to accept it, and then move on as if nothing has changed.

We used to wait for our electronics to warm up, now it's our software.