Quotes About Adaptation

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, said Darcy, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

No poseo el talento de otros que pueden conversar con facilidad con quienes nunca han visto. No tengo valor para ello ni puedo adaptarme al carácter de los demás con la facilidad que otros lo hacen.

These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…

I have observed, Mrs Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper.

if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere—and those evil-minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves.

There is hardly any personal defect, replied Anne, which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

when shall I cease to regret you!—when learn to feel a home elsewhere!

she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook…

Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject.

Nothing can be changed by changing the face,but everything can be changed by facing the change!!Just think about it.  

The removal of one solicitude generally makes way for another.

Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind.

We shall be on good terms again; though we can never be what we once were to each other.

So altered that he should not have known her again!' These were words which could not but dwell with her. Yet she soon began to rejoice that she had heard them. They were of sobering tendency; they allayed agitation; they composed, and consequently must make her happier.

There is hardly any personal defect, replied Anne, which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.