Quotes About Adaptation

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

Many people give the appearance of progress by shedding the prejudices and irrational postulates of one generation only to acquire those of the next.

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things, It is what he can make, not what you would make for him.

Well, the Theatre's certainly not what it was.

And for a hundred visions and revisions

About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong.

For you can hardly fight anyone for very long without employing his weapons and using his methods; and to fight a man with ideas means adapting your ideas to his mind. Conflict is contact.

Things change, but only into themselves. Downstairs

Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are only termite hills left but no bush?

strange days are upon us. Tradition served us, but now it shackles us.

You took your shot. It didn't work out. Now you get to do laundry. That's what life is shaped like.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience.

While I do not believe that things necessarily happen for the best, I know that some people are able to make the best of things that happen.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

The day you get used to this , turn in your shield and your gun. You won't belong to the human race anymore. ~ Vince to Mendez

Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)

As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin

Hello, he greeted her cheerfully. You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first day. Has anyone said what we try to learn in here? Alanna said the first thing that came to her lips. The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.

The sands drift always, yet the desert remains the same.

She got to her feet and tucked her fingers into her armpits to warm them, glaring at Briar and Parahan as she walked over to the mules. It wasn't fair that men didn't have to twist themselves into knots to pee!

Things change," Daja said softly. "We change with them. We sail before the wind. We become adults. As adults, we keep our minds and our secrets hidden, and our wounds. It's safer.

Magelet, one thing I have learned is that humans cling to their first knowledge of you, particularly if they have no experience of you once you've changed.