Quotes About Adaptation

All religious people in any age have to make their traditions address the challenge of their particular modernity

Once you've spent a winter buried in the Alpine snow foraging for food, it's hard to complain over heat.

It's funny how many little things you get used to - attached to, even - and never realize until you travel abroad and those things are not available.

We have to move forward, sweetheart. And we can't do that if we hold on to what was.

I wish we hadn't kissed at all," he snapped. "So do I, but we can't unkiss, so we must deal with it as best as we can.

Change never hurt nobody, child. You know that. It's those who can't or won't change who lose.

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

It seems to me that every time we humans announce that here is the thing that makes us unique--our featherless bipedality, our tool-using, our language--some other species comes along to snatch it away. If modesty were a human trait, we'd have learned to be more cautious over the years.

Fair warning, as it turned out—kindergarten is all about learning which parts of you are welcome at school and which are not.

I'm seeing so much of America today," Luya kept telling Lowell in nervously accented English. It became a personal catchphrase for him — whenever things were not to his liking, he'd say that — I'm seeing so much of America today.

We don't choose whom we love," he told Maura, so gently that she knew he knew. If she wasn't going to be loved in return, she would have liked not to be pitied for it. She got neither of these wishes. "But people have this advantage over swans, to put their unwise loves aside and love another. Not me. I'm too much swan for that.

My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher.

We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off. —FRANZ KAFKA, "A Report for an Academy

We used to believe that memories are best retrieved in the same place where they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore. But

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off.

Karen Joy Fowler

You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been

We should get you Linux, too. Nobody uses Windows anymore.

But change is the only constant, and life goes on.

I wanted to be an artist, long time ago. But my hand was damaged, so I got into graphic design. Drawing faces was much easier with a mouse than a pen.

Bacteria is the only culture some people have.

Proactive interference," Paul would have explained. "It's when previously acquired information inhibits our ability to process new information.