Quotes About Adaptation

I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.

If you can't change it don't worry about it.

Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn't human.

War. War never changes.

You've been so used to fighting Wars with a gun in your hand that you forget to put it down. Not every fight requires a weapon of some kind, and not everything is a fight.

Do you know what we call windows in Belgrade?' she asked. All our windows are broken and crisscrossed with scotch tape. 'Windows 99.

The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred.

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

Sergeant Tin said it would be easier to just call you Corporal. She said you go back and forth, promoted one day and busted the next.

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

Progress means to be true to the world, If we need to make a change.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.

Isn't it funny how we all will end up? Best friends today, communicating via internet tomorrow. Crush today, dancing at their weddings tomorrow.

I was my own boss, but that all changed the day I got married.

Birds build nests because they cannot fly forever.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.

Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.