Quotes About Adaptation

Gradually, we have become each other's weather.

Things doesn't always start out the way we want them to. It's how they end that's important.

Dare to learn.Dare to relearn.Dare to outlearn.

I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don't know how I should be able to get on without it.

When Mrs. Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn't the same. It was like tea after the teapot has been watered.

Estamos en Transilvania; y Transilvania no es Inglaterra. Nuestra manera de ser no es como su manera de ser, y habrá para usted muchas cosas extrañas.

When your only option is to jump, you jump and try to make it work.

but you don't need to understand everything about a world to live in it.

None of us start out strong ... And none of us have the exact same strengths.

even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others. Don't pout; you're about to see something impressive. And it won't even give you nightmares.

I've learned the hard way that life doesn't always follow the plan

When the gales come, raise a windmill, not a dam.

Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world

You learn to move on without the people you love.

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a very primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes. It seems so hopeless yet we must keep on trying ... I guess we can't escape being a product of the times, can we?

Adjust my dreams for me.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

The movie was very different from the book in that there was nothing from the book in the movie. Despite everything — all the pain I felt, the betrayal — I couldn't help but recognize a truth while sitting in that screening room. In the book everything about me had happened. The book was something I simply couldn't disavow. The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing "I just want to be loved," cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer—all of it was wrong, without any final purpose. All it came down to was: die or adapt.

La vida es como una errata tipográfica: constantemente estamos escribiendo y reescribiendo las cosas

This is reality, and as my loathsome brother Sean would say, I have to deal with it. The

Disintegration--I'm taking it in stride.