Quotes About Adaptation

Change doesn't just happen," her mother had always said, echoing the Shaker motto. "It has to be planned.

how your life could trundle along on its safe little track and then, with no warning, skid spectacularly off course.

this was the first reason he came to love her: because she had blended in so perfectly, because she had seemed so completely and utterly at home.

Ela havia aprendido (...) que a vida podia estar seguindo seu caminhozinho seguro e então, sem qualquer aviso, descarrilhar de forma impressionante.

Staying unnoticed was how you survived.

She had learned, with Izzy's birth, how your life could trundle along on its safe little track and then, with no warning, skid spectacularly off course.

You never got what you wanted ; you just learned to get by without it.

Oh, we don't use rabbits anymore," the pretty young doctor laughed, slipping the needle into the soft crook of Marilyn's arm. "We use frogs now.

Oh, we don't use rabbits anymore," the pretty young doctor laughed, slipping the needle into the soft crook of Marilyn's arm. "We use frogs now. Much faster and easier. Isn't modern science wonderful?

People are like that, too, you know. They start over. They find a way.

Even her beloved Warren gave up at that point -- "I don't need to know how it works, Mi," he told her at last, "I just want to see the pictures" -- and Mia realized that she was crossing into a place she would have to go alone.

Perfectly serviceable, Mrs. Richardson thought. Two bedrooms, one for the adults and one for the boys. The girls—for she was still certain Izzy would be back with them shortly—could sleep on the three-season porch. A bathroom and a half—well, they would have to share.

Did you have to burn down the old to make way for the new?

Tinha a sensação de ter mergulhado em um lago fundo e transparente, e então de ter descoberto que na verdade era uma lagoa rasa, que batia no seu joelho. O que podia fazer? Bem, tinha que se levantar, limpar os joelhos sujos, tirar os pés da lama. E tomar mais cuidado. Ele saberia, dali em diante, que o mundo era um lugar menor do que imaginara.

A toothpick, inserted into a standard keyhole and snapped off flush, is a marvelous thing.

I realize that I am not happy with the life I lead. I always had one kind of life in mind and things have turned out very differently.

Of course, I know that turtles aren't mammals. They are ambivalents, which can live on air or underwater and write with their right or left flippers. They also almost never vote.

Tanzimattan beri haz?r elbiseye merakl?y?z, haz?r elbise ve haz?r medeniyete… (Ma?aradakiler, s,314)

as technology has changed, so have our tools.

I ragazzi, le donne, il mondo, non sono mica cambiati. Non portano più il parasole, la domenica vanno al cinema invece che in festa, danno il grano all'ammasso, le ragazze fumano - eppure la vita è la stessa, e non sanno che un giorno si guarderanno in giro e anche per loro sarò tutto passato.

Someone who has suffered is no longer the same.

By now I've grown used to my destiny and I let the days pass, like the man already wet who lets the rain pummel him.

If you want to stay relevant, you're going to have to dive into the domain of the business you're in

Your skills should transcend technology platform