Quotes About Adaptation

She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone

The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal … well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

A man can be reforged.

Everything's going to change, Sazed, and I can't stop it." Sazed smiled fondly. "Then, Mistress," he said quietly, "simply enjoy what you have. The future will surprise you, I think.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's in how they make use of what life has shown them.

Love can't change the realities of our situation." "No, but it can change people.

Okay, I could deal with this. I could accept this. Deal with this, brain!

He'd once believed he had been four men in his life, but he now saw he'd grossly underestimated. He hadn't lived as two, or four, or six men—he had lived as thousands, for each day he became someone slightly different. He hadn't changed in one giant leap, but across a million little steps.

sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.

A bunny rabbit and a chick went frolicking in the grass together on a sunny day." "A chick . . . baby chicken?" Kaladin said. "And a what?" "Ah, forgot myself for a moment," Wit said. "Sorry. Let me make it more appropriate for you. A piece of wet slime and a disgusting crab thing with seventeen legs slunk across the rocks together on an insufferably rainy day. Is that better?

That didn't stop the world from ending, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

A good officer was one who accepted orders and fulfilled them, even when he disagreed. But the mark of a great officer was that he also tried to innovate and offer appropriate suggestions.

The world is progressing. One man cannot slow it, no matter how determined he is." He stopped in the path. You cannot stop the tides from changing, Dusk. No matter how determined you are. His mother's words.

People are elastic, Wax thought. We can keep reshaping ourselves. And if we're not quite the same as before, well, that's good. It means we can grow.

But things can't stay the same—and that's well, for when nothing changes in your life, it's as good as being dead.

You have to learn when to care. And when to let go. You'll grow calluses.

But you'll always find people telling stories about supposedly better days. You watch. A man joins a new team of soldiers, and the first thing he'll do is talk about how wonderful his old team was. We remember the good times and the bad ones, forgetting that most times are neither good nor bad. They just are." He

If nothing changed, nothing would ever come to exist.

The dog chewing on your ankle is pleasant compared to the one that used to be chewing on your head." "Nice metaphor," I noted.

Evolution doesn't 'try' to do anything," M-Bot said. "But like it or not, you are the pinnacle of its work. All evolutionary pressures throughout all the ages among your species have resulted in you.

Life is changing. We will all feel alone because of this, yes? Ha! Perhaps we can feel alone together.

We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.

Either way, we had him to thank for a world without flowers, where plants grew brown rather than green, and where people could survive in an environment where ash fell from the sky on a regular basis.

Everything's going to change, Sazed, and I can't stop it." Sazed smiled fondly. "Then, Mistress," he said quietly, "simply enjoy what you have.