Quotes About Adaptation

Such are the vicissitudes of life," Tuf said, "that each of us must sometimes accept that which he does not like.

You're asking a lame man to teach a cripple how to dance.

But it did no good to brood on lost battles and roads not taken.

What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves.…

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean tin is useless.

Or do you mean to rule over a realm of seals and otters?" She gave a rueful laugh. "Otters might be easier to rule than men, I grant you. And seals are smarter.

Only man stripped the skins from other beasts and wore their hides and hair.

If I'm not learning, check my pulse!

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible

All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

The age of the book is almost gone.

Governments, churches, and educational institutes, once the keepers of order and social enlightenment, are now scrambling to remain relevant as our collective consciousness and connectivity grows.

Errors sanctified by long usage are not easily relinquished.

La définition de la maladie demande comme point de départ la notion d'être individuel . La maladie apparaît lorsque l'organisme est modifié de telle façon qu'il en vient à des réactions catastrophiques dans le milieu qui lui est propre.

On doit procéder par tâtonnements, essayer des hypothèses vraisemblables et partielles se contenter d'approximations provisoires, de manière à laisser toujours la porte ouverte à des corrections progressives.

Sometimes—at the same time—I am a dinosaur, a fish, a bat, a bird, a single-celled organism swimming in the primordial soup, or the embryo of a mammal, sometimes I'm in a cave, sometimes in a womb, which is basically the same thing—a place protected (against time).

I can feel myself giving up over time. Getting used to it. Old age is getting used to things.

I realize I must be different than when I came out [to Ghost Ranch], but it seems so long ago that I can't remember what I was like---so I can't lapse back to it---I can only be as I am---and I feel terribly alive---