Quotes About Adaptation

There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.

None of us are what we once were.

I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.

You're one of those people who fall off a tree and never quite reach the ground.

I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if i didn't stop, if I kept on walking, i wouldn't notice that the world I knew was no longer there.

Ya sé que el mundo cambia, pero nunca en lo esencial.

History is biology's dumping ground

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. In

Dani su prestali nositi ime.

A couple of days without a dictator, and you Spaniards have already become bisexual.

digo. Se va y uno se cree a salvo, pero siempre vuelve, siempre vuelve... y nos ahoga. Yo lo veo todos los días en el instituto. Válgame Dios. Simios es lo que llegan a las aulas. Darwin era un soñador, se lo aseguro. Ni evolución ni niño muerto. Por cada uno que razona, tengo que lidiar con nueve orangutanes.

Se acabó lo de gratis, Fernandito. Bienvenido al capitalismo. —¿No dicen que eso es malísimo? —Peor. Y te va a encantar. —¿Cuándo empiezo? —Ahora mismo.

Nothing is ever the same after a war.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice it.

The rules make provisions for everything, especially on occasions when one doesn't know what to do.

it was fast becoming the best pair of gloves ever given to someone with no hands.

Men are like that. They're like geraniums. When they look as if they're ready to be tossed into the bin they revive.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being.

Despite myself I was beginning to get used to Isabella's company, to her jibes and to the light she had brought into that house. If things continued this way, my worst fears were going to come true and we'd end up being friends.

Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas para las cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armario para que sean incapaces de rehacer los pasos perdidos.

As the months went by, I learned to confuse routine with normality.

Me: The only way to describe the Earth these days is to compare it to rotten food or rotten sex. Georges: It doesn't sound like it's changed much. Sylvia: Nothing ever changes. Kathy: Everything changes. You've just forgotten how to see change. You're blind to it.