Quotes About Adaptation

I was a newly created Negro who must go out that door and live in a world unfamiliar to me.

Half my life is an act of revision.

MADE FOR TELEVISION.

When I first came to Canada, I thought it was going to be easy to be a Canadian; like so many stupid Americans, I pictured Canada as simply some northern, colder, possibly more provincial region of the United States-I imagined it would be like moving to Maine, or Minnesota.

Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world!

I just don't dare to make up everything, like you do." I don't make up everything, but when I use things that actually happened, I always change something; I try to make what happens not exactly true.

You have taught yourself to read English, too," Pepe said slowly to the boy; the girl suddenly gave him the shivers, for no known reason. "English is just a little different—I can understand it," the boy told him

The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who walk on their hands.

Kanonische Veränderungen über das Weihnachtslied

And I? With Egg and Mother gone—and Sorrow in an unknown pose, or in disguise—I knew we had arrived in a foreign country.

a school-vacation skier is never the equal to a north-country native.

The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who can walk on their hands.

Life was like a cannon, Beld Yulan had always said. "You've got to clear the empty casings before you can fire again." As

What would bring the Confederacy to an inglorious end was the same thing that had so foolishly created it a rigidity of thought, a clinging to old ways, a refusal to adapt and change.

And with fear of change perplexes monarchs

If we sometimes recast problems before we begin, more often we revise our specification in the process of actually tackling them.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher delights the chameleon poet.

Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen

a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly—and with very limited funds.

Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservations, letting its rocklike facts sift through and be accepted only a little at a time, only as much as he could assimilate without a sense of chaos and loss.

Times change, and wars change. But men don't change, do they?

You know what? I'm almost glad this war came along. It's like a test, isn't it, and only the things and the people who've been evolving the right way survive.

Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence. Changed

There isn't any question that we are conforming in every possible way to everything that's happening and everything that's going to happen.