Quotes About Adaptation

It was a waste of time to wish that things had happened differently.

Humans—once they were born into the world—were of a different mind-set. They were determined to make their lives better not by adapting to nature, but by subjugating her. The entire history of their evolution has been centered on taking

She was talking about herself and Sebec. She was explaining to him how hard it could be to accept the way things sometimes worked out.

Evolution is a competitive game in which victory comes not from achieving some fixed number of points but by simply outscoring the opposition

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We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp.

Life is about change. Change has both good and bad elements to it. You can either deal with the way things have changed and move forward, or you can let bitterness about what's lost in the past rob you of your future.

You don't have to get wet to cross a river.

The situation was rather like that of the mid-twentieth century, when the old vaudeville comedians – with their distinctive repertoire of hand-me-down material culled from many years of touring music halls – found themselves displaced by the university-educated satirists of the television age who wrote their own fresh material every week.

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

You cannot go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

The turtle moves.

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.

Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.

Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough.

Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her mentor, It shouldn't be like this. Her mentor replies, There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.