Quotes About Adaptation

I'm used to it. Try slamming your fist into a brick wall every day. Eventually you won't even feel the pain anymore.

Human beings stand in the rubble of former beliefs.

Hey, Aidan! I have been going on the last couple years.

Scientists accustomed to working with limited resources and virtually no deadlines now had to adjust to a world of unlimited resources and exacting deadlines.

Women can be beautiful and smart. They just choose to play down their intelligence so they can survive and get along with others during the times in history when women didn't have equal rights, couldn't speak out, and were considered property. - Strong by Kailin Gow

Lizard people?" Jack raises an eyebrow. "I have to call them something. And 'lizard people' is a little less scary than 'big, invulnerable thing that nearly killed us'." "Lizard people it is," Jack agrees., FADE by Kailin Gow

Lots of animals are smaller than they used to be. Look at the size crocodiles used to be around the time of the dinosaurs. Or most of the huge mammals following that. Sometimes, being smaller means that you don't have to find as much food.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Do not mistake self-confidence for pride. Pride is an excessive view of one's self without regard for others while self-confidence is the belief one has in themselves. - On the characters in Pride and Prejudice which Kailin Gow has adapted and is directing as a film.

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.

Samia, it appeared, had become one of those desis who drink Pepsi in Pakistan and lassi in London.

What would you stop at to help the people you love most? Well, you obviously don't love anyone very much if your love is contingent on them always staying the same.

People don't change.' 'People change entirely,' I said. 'Look at Narcissus. Became a flower. I call that change.

Things mutate, thoughts and emotions, they mutate inside you in ways you aren't even aware of.

History is never obliging enough to replay itself in all details.

Th?i gian trôi, con ng??i c?ng trôi theo. Làm sao có th? không thay ??i.

You can try to organize your life into neat and organized sections. You can label it and categorize it. You can arrange it in any way you wish. But the minute you turn your head, it will become amorphous once

I managed to convince myself that I'd left Bulgaria behind for good. I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my oyster. Where are you from? they ask. Does it matter? I answer. But it does.

Right now, my deep suspicion is that it's possible, perhaps even inevitable, to live between – no, among – nationalities. It's a bit like wearing different suits, all of them the wrong size, all of them slightly ridiculous, either too baggy or too tight. They don't make the right size anymore, it's been discontinued.

Her fikir iÅŸlenmelidir, sabit fikirler paslanmaya mahkumdur.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

In truth, all inventors only improve on what's come before them. They should be called innovators rather than inventors.

You cant win unless you learn how to lose.