Quotes About Adaptation

Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long.

A badly written novel can always be shortened to a poem.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

In politics a week is a very long time.

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

Politics is not an exact science.

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.