Quotes About Adaptation

Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past, disowning it whenever it can.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All other fears must be learned.

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.

Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.

There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes, I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'

One man out of every five who lands on our shores is a foreigner- i.e. non-Anglo-Saxon. He comes here with a foreign tongue, foreign ideals, foreign religion, with centuries of ignorance and oppression behind him, often bringing with him problems that the best statesmen of Europe have failed to solve.

belongs anywhere, even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.

The big unions served a noble purpose once, and bless them for it. Now they're part of the problem and must give way if America is to move and to participate in management and achieve reasonable productivity.

Had there been a computer a hundred years ago, it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.

All things are subject to change, and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.)

If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

There is nothing permanent except change.

You can't step into the same river twice.

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

Change must be measured from a known base line.

Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks.

I've learned only that you never say never.

We change, whether we like it or not.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.