Quotes About Adaptation

The merger of religion and politics is a classical Islamic ideal; in the recent era, they have again been brought together. The utopian aspirations of the Islamic movements evoke the Muslim ideal of the caliphate, but in many respects they are an altogether novel adaptation of Islamic concepts to modern conditions.

Take what life hands you and get on with it

Sometimes one has got to become monstrous in order to survive.

I'm sorry, I'm not myself. Or rather I am myself, my new self.

Come in, defeat, come in and make yourself at home.

Of course, my dear, I cannot, how could I, altogether regret what has happened.

Louise was a jewel locked away; and after the first 'if only' period had passed and Clement had got used to 'Mrs Anderson', he felt that his love for her had not faded, but had suffered a sea change into something special and unique, causing a special and unique and much valued, pain.

They haven't been standing still in the past.

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures.

Some people spend years in counselling trying to cope with being fucked up. I just move on. The fucked-upness always goes. The conventional wisdom is that you're running away, you should learn to cope with being fucked-up. I don't hold with that. Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

Does it? Get easier, I mean, he asks urgently. The cop shakes his heid. — Does it fuck; it gets bleedin worse. All that happens is that the expectations you have of life fall. You just get used to all the shit. Renton

É, o mundo moderno tem um tipo de seleção natural e não tem jeito de eu me encaixar nessa história não. Os bichano tipo eu acabam tudo extinto.

As difficult it is tae conceive ay it at the moment, ah may yet find other uses for the organ, besides pishing.

The problem is that Tom refuses tae accept ma view that society cannae be changed tae make it significantly better, or that ah cannae change tae accommodate it. Such a state ay affairs induces depression on ma part, aw the anger gets turned in. That's what depression is, they say. However, depression also results in demotivation. A void grows within ye. Junk fills the void, and also helps us tae satisfy ma need tae destroy masel, the anger turned in bit again.

Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.

Erezia unei genera?ii este ortodoxia genera?iei urm?toare.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

Past glories are poor feeding.

Education isn't something you can finish.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be ...

Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.

Rules, established with reason and justice, can easily outlive their usefulness as circumstances change, yet can remain in force through inertia. It is then not only right, but useful, to break those rules as a way of advertising the fact that they have become useless—or even actually harmful.