Quotes About Adaptation

Poor lizards. What joys they missed. Had they not been so culturally deprived, they might have sunk into the swamps in a mere three thousand years.

Ich bin ein Jude, und wenn es etwas gibt, was Juden in ein bissel mehr als sechstausend Jahren gelernt haben, dann ist es, dass man Kompromisse eingehen muss, um es bis siebentausend zu schaffen.

We'll try this first. If it doesn't work, we'll try something else. That's life, isn't it?

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

they have repeatedly overcome or worked around the forces of the actual—inertia, stasis, entropy—to probe the realm of the possible.

Fish are an endless source of meditation and astonishment. The varied forms of these strange creatures, their diverse means of existence, the influence upon this of the places in which they must live and breathe and move about….

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

but sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down...

there are ways of doing things you dont't know about

Try fighting with your head for a change . . it's a good one, even if it does resist learning -Atticus

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.

they've never learned to live in this one

Trains changed - conductors never did.

He is an incredible man, she thought. A chapter of his life comes to a close, Atticus tears down the old house and builds a new one in a new section of town. I couldn't do it. They built an ice cream parlor where the old one was. Wonder who runs it?

Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right;

Conservative resistance to change, that's all

You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

uno debe mentir en ciertas circunstancias, en particular cuando no puede modificar las circunstancias. —Hemos

It takes considerable getting used to. I hated it for two years. It intimidated me daily until one morning when someone pushed me on a bus and I pushed back. After I pushed back I realized I'd become a part of it.

Yüz y?l geri kalmam?z, kazanmaya gayret etmememizi gerektirmez.

hadn't taken anything from or off of anybody since they migrated to the New World.

while" in Maycomb meant anything from three days to thirty years. Jem and I exchanged glances. "Jem's growing

The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought.

I challenge us to change, because as Charles Darwin once observed, "It is not the strongest species that will survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.