Quotes About Adaptation

So plan A is a bust. God can make plan B better than plan A ever would have been." Plan B. Or even plan C.

You have to embrace the life you have, not the one you expected you'd have - or the one others expect you to have.

Life is full of surprises, so you may as well get used to it.

Sooner or later she will learn time changes everything, takes everything: sometimes in a blink, and sometimes so slowly you can't even see it happening.

Sometimes what you want is given to you in a way that is so very different from how you had pictured getting it

have learned this is her way of coming to terms with events she cannot control. We all have to find a way to do that, don't we?

found out how fast things can change. You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road.

Remembering what you want about the past, even if it's not entirely true, keeps you from giving up on the present.

Home isn't a place where everything stays the same; it's a place where you are safe and loved despite nothing staying the same. Change always happens. Always.

We adjust to it. Somehow we figure out a way. We straighten what we can or learn how to like something a little crooked. That's how it is. Something breaks, you fix it as best you can. There's always a way to make something better, even if it means sweeping up the broken pieces and starting all over. That's how we keep moving, keep breathing, keep opening our eyes every morning, even when the only thing we know for sure is that we're still alive.

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.

It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.

Despite our best efforts, you came to the game at different times and as you know for different reasons. All the reasons go back to the fact that the game board has drastically changed. Know that it always does, though. War, drought, famine, illness, death, poverty. The game board changes underneath your feet. We did not want you to feel the pain of this.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.

In a sense, then, the number of orchid species on the planet is uncountable because it is constantly changing.

Overnight, the city managed to procure thousands of cardboard boxes, fifteen hundred hard hats, a few thousand rolls of packing tape, and the services of Eric Lundquist, a mechanical engineer and former popcorn distributor who had reinvented himself as a expert in drying out wet things. The notion of putting the books in with groceries didn't faze Lundquist, since he'd freeze-dried his first salvaged books alongside a summer's worth of peas and carrots from his garden.

Los Angeles seemed to always be moving toward the eternal future; it was a city that shed memories before they had a chance to stick.

transition from pre-Internet to omnipresent-Internet, and who was successfully rigging the library to sail into the future not as a gigantic, groaning, fusty pile of books but as a sleek ship of information and imagination.

It was like everyone shared the same great realization: the libraries have persisted, and they have grown, and they will certainly endure.

He kept repeating the story, adjusting it a touch each time, as if he were a tailor working on a jacket, taking in a bit of fabric here, letting out a seam there, then stepping back to consider what fit what best.

There is a way, however, to turn poison into medicine. Depending on how it's used, a single substance can be either poisonous or medicinal.

Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

The more established we are in our world, the less flexibility we have for allowing a partner into that world.