Quotes About Adaptation

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

You have not realized how I have developed. I was a schoolboy when you knew me. I am a man now. I have new passions new thoughts new ideas. I am different but you must not like me less. I am changed but you must always be my friend.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

Olvidar un hecho, es modificar el pasado.

My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing. [All sigh.] I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

A grapefruit is ionly a lemon that saw an oppurtunity and took advantage of it.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into my book of changes: may the song I sing be seamless as its way weaves from the world's beginning to our day.

et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)

what we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow

My purpose is to tell of bodies that have been changed into shapes of different kinds.

By yielding you may obtain victory

Qui non est hodie eras minus aptus erit. He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow.

We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.

I intend to speak of metamorphoses.

Jokaisen rakkauden voittaa uusi rakkaus.

Everything changes Everything flows. What we were or are Tomorrow we will not be.

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.

I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I've made a career out of it now.