Quotes About Adaptation

Change was supposed to be good for the soul, and turmoil created patience, but sometimes accepting either wasn't easy.

In their years in Sugar Run, Texas, Tootsie and Smokey Colbert had had so many neighbors that they'd lost count. One by one, families in the four other houses on their block had moved in and moved away. Now, all were sitting empty.

Winning and Learning

Had to stay human. Wolf couldn't drive the freaking car. Or hold the gun.

Because all Robin Hood stories are fanfiction. Robin Hood started out as fanfiction and has never been anything else.

He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America.

People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.

The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again.

But if there isn't a right way to do things you have to invent one.

Asked to resolve problems in a language that is not their own, people are less likely to depart from standard accounts of rationality.

À noter que les nazis surent aussi adapter leur « science » aux nécessités militaires : ainsi, les Japonais cessèrent dès 1935 d'être stigmatisés comme non-aryens.

La vie n'est pas une boîte de chocolats où je peux choisir celui que je préfère ; ou alors, quelqu'un l'a remplacé pendant que j'avais le dos tourné.

But will he slay dragons for me?" Char whispered. "Slay dragons?" Sarah shook her head. "No one slays dragons anymore, my love. We just learn to live with them." Char

And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn't know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn't quite know it all so much then.

Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.

Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.

You can't hold on to all things forever, no matter how hard you grip them.

Albert Einstein: 'We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.'" He

When a member of the family leaves or dies, it changes the dynamics of a family. People move and shift, take up places they either wanted to have or are forced into roles they never wanted. It happens without anybody noticing, but it's shifting all the time.

I never wanted anything new; from the age of ten, I was convinced that you couldn't replace what was lost. I insisted on things having to be found.

Es así la vida normal? Lo pregunto porque estoy acostumbrada al dramatismo. Por lo general las cosas se resisten a salir como quiero. Estoy acostumbrada a luchar, quejarme y protestar para conseguir cosas que no son exactamente lo que quiero, pero que cubren el expediente.

Just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.