Quotes About Adaptation

There are lots of things we've never talked about. Such as? Children. Suppose we have children and it turns out we don't like them? If we can like Bob, we can like anything, Morelli said. Bob was in the living room licking lint off the carpet.

Life is a series of natural changes. Resisting change only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Everyone's childhood is strange. It prepares you for the strangeness of adulthood." Riley

Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water. We're like that catfish with lungs.

Whatever the other team does best, that's what you have to do better.

Scary gets to be the new normal.

Sometimes I find human nature to be real disappointing," Lula said. "I guess that's why God made metallic extensions and pink hair dye. Sometimes you gotta compensate.

Stephanie Plum, master of rationalization. Believe whatever the moment calls for.

figure you gotta have the right attitude about this stuff. Take Dolly, for instance. Dolly was gonna try to keep her lunch date, which is a good thing, because life gotta go on. And even though he was dead, Dirk sort of looked like he was smiling.

It's because my regular girl, Shanesha, left the salon and when I went in just now, I had to get my hair done by the new girl, Amy. I just don't think anyone named Amy could understand my hair needs.

It's like they had early aspirations that didn't turn out and eventually they settled into a comfortable undemanding existence.

You're thinking I wasn't in a hurry to get out into the real world? On the contrary. The real world is where you find it.

You know there was a time when I'd say to myself… How does she do it? How does she get mixed up with these weirdos? But now I don't even question it. In fact, I've come to expect such things of you.

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

She was used to taking the world as it was, she'd never have guessed you could get what you wanted by asking for it.

At times like this I surprise myself, how I've managed to create something of a life on this foggy shore out of the broken pieces of myself, scavenged from the sea like flotsam. Or is it jetsam…it irks me not to know the difference.

I looked at my life and saw quite clearly that I was not surviving it in the turquoise house. I was letting my sails crust up with salt. I had to stop playing johnny johnny and concentrate on preparing for rain, preparing for rescue.

In stages, that's how. First you let go of the things you loved.

Loneliness was the human condition, I had to get used to it.

The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending to slip successfully into the new mould; a time will come when the tailored and camouflaged mind breaks beneath the burden; the stick insect in our brains no longer cares to resemble a twig on the same habitual human tree in the mere hope that it may survive extinction.

if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'? How indeed?

Creative work in any established system of thought takes place at the boundaries of the system, where its powers of explanation are least developed and its vulnerability to outside attack is most marked.

A sense of humor is a requisite to surviving in our demanding world

I will even admit that spinach, which I hate, might taste good. But I am not sorry that I came with you, Wynn.