Quotes About Adaptation

hasta lo inesperado acaba en costumbre cuando se ha aprendido a soportar.

no es nominalismo, no es magia, solamente que las cosas no se pueden variar así de pronto, a veces las cosas viran brutalmente y cuando usted esperaba la bofetada a la derecha.

Hasta a la extrañeza es posible acostumbrarse, creer que el misterio se explica por sí mismo y que uno acaba por vivir dentro, aceptando lo inaceptable…

Cuando no se está demasiado seguro de nada, lo mejor es crearse deberes a manera de flotadores

el beduino poligloto, el intérprete transhumante.

Cuando a uno lo sacan de sus hábitos es como el pescado fuera del agua –dijo el doctor Restelli, mirando su vaso–. Estoy muy acostumbrado al mate dulce de las cuatro, sabe.

No renuncio a nada, simplemente hago lo que puedo para que las cosas me renuncien a mi.

Now I am an axolotl.

Pero los ojos se habitúan a un paisaje, lo incorporan poco a poco a sus costumbres y a sus formas cotidianas y lo convierten finalmente en un recuerdo de lo que la mirada, alguna vez, aprendió a ver.

El choque entre mi memoria y lo que veía alrededor de mí me hacía sentirme fuera de un mundo que me era familiar, pero al que ya no pertenecía.

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

The education provided must therefore encourage the development in each citizen of three things; an inquiring mind; and ability to learn from what others do, and reject or adapt it to his own needs; and a basic confidence in his own position as a free and equal member of the society, who values others and is valued by them for what he does and not for what he obtains.

A nation which refuses to learn from foreign culture is nothing but a nation of idiots and lunatics... But to learn from other cultures does not mean we should abandon our own.

Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend.

Stop building tomorrow's roads on today's grounds.

The other kids ignored me, and that hurt more than I cared to admit. Before long, I'd decided they had nothing on me. I could play their game. I could be happy being invisible.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

It would have broken my heart if it hadn't been so damn familiar. I guess I'd gotten numb to that sort of thing. I had heart-leather like walruses got blubber.

It's like Abuela says: Every snake always thinks it's biting into a rat until the day it bites into a mongoose. That

It was hard at first. Once you've been fuera, Santo Domingo is the smallest place in the world. But if I've learned anything in my travels it's that a person can get used to anything. Even Santo Domingo.

We're committed to the idea that a book has to live in the present . . . but the reality, that's hard for us to recognise, is that a book has to live in the future.

There's nothing permanent in the world