Quotes About Adaptation

There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.

Don't change the man. Change his environment.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.