Quotes About Adaptation

She might wish Bony were bigger, and she might wish for a shield, but this was what she had.

It was strange, seeing her in clothes I had not bought or lent her, drinking wine she had selected without my advice, without needing me there.

Hild did what she always she did when she couldn't influence a thing; she stopped thinking about it.

Orange is just change, Sara. Not all good, not all bad. Just different.

A new Tammy, the tentative beginnings of a new life. But there were still a few threads from the old that needed to be dealt with.

Oh, you won't kill yourself, you're too self-centered and you're too stubborn to go mad. So that means you'll have to cope.

Old ways are not always the best ways.

You've made more of a life here in three weeks than you've done in five years in Atlanta. I only wonder that you've managed to hide from the obvious for so long. This place is ideal for a Norwegian who isn't really Norwegian anymore. It positively reeks of Scandanavia, all clean and shiny and Americanized full of rules that people obey with a smile when it pleases them and break with a smile when it doesn't. Ideal for you.

The modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs.

Adapting to the modern world demands the hardening of one's sensibility and the debasing of one's character.

The reactionary does not aspire to turn back, but rather to change direction.

Civilizations are mortal" is the greatest comfort for someone alive today.

Once he settles down in the country he admires, the foreigner bastardizes exactly that which he admires.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one's usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.

Ce n'est jamais la vie qui décline, mais seulement l'idée qu'on parvient à s'en faire.

After a certain age, any new friends we make in our attempt to replace the ones we've lost are like glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs.

That as a human being I'm not necessarily static, but... evolving. That I'm supposed to grow and develop, just like the physical world, the planet, the universe.

She, too, could become someone else. Eventually. Or she'd told herself all these years.

We are fish swimming in a cooking pot

Change brings opportunity.

Admire your heroes. Adapt from your models. learn from your mentors.

Many people are unable to prepare for the future because they are too busy reliving the past.