Quotes About Adaptation

In the course of millions of years there was no form of living creature that hadn't had its opportunity to come forth, populate the Earth, and then—in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred—decline and vanish.

Llega un momento de la vida en que de la gente que uno ha conocido son más los muertos que los vivos. Y la gente se niega a aceptar otras fisionomías, otras expresiones: En todas las caras nuevas que encuentra, imprime los viejos calcos, para cada una encuentra una cara que se le adapta mejor.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

It takes some real hard running to stay in the same place

The same Christ Jesus is not the same for everyone, because people are different. He has one profile for the poor and another for the rich, one profile for the sick and another for the healthy.

The ordination of women is not a matter of adaptation to changed social conditions. It has to do with new fife from the beginnings of the Christian church: life out of the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

Na die tocht leken zijn herinneringen meer op verzinsels dan op feiten, zei hij en hij was verbitterd omdat de wereld veranderd was en geen rekening met zijn verleden en zijn gemis had gehouden.

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use these languages, or we remain mute.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

People who say no to upgrades will end up in caravan parks and wild places.

Stevenson, though, Was soon enough reduced to the timeless lamentations of the I-Matang on an atoll: "I think I could shed tears over a dish of turnips," he wrote in a letter. And elsewhere: "I had learned to welcome shark's fresh for a variety; and a mountain, an onion, an Irish potato or beefsteak, had long had been long lost to sense and dear to aspiration.

Totul în via?? este legat de vocile pe frecvenÈ›a c?rora te reglezi È™i de cele la care renunÈ›i.

This wish to wander, to meet different kinds of people, is there something arrogant about it, something a little frivolous and perverse? Where will she go to make a home for herself when every home seems too sunk in its roots, too predictable

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

Perhaps she would never really know him. A year and a half ago that though would have been unbearable to her, but now she had learnt to live with uncertainty, even to love it.

Sometimes, you have to ride the wave, Kit-Cat, and see what beach it lands on. Could be warm and sunny there.

It's like the rules switch for a beach and everyone suddenly knows how to behave like an advanced human

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use