Quotes About Adaptation

Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

The Lethani is the same everywhere," she said firmly. "It is not like the wind, changing from place to place." "The Lethani is like water," I responded without thinking. "It is itself unchanging, but it shapes itself to fit all places. It is both the river and the rain." She glared at me. "Who are you to say the Lethani is like one thing and not another?" "Who are you to do the same?

She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.

It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.

You couldn't fight the tide or change the wind. And if there was a storm? Well, a girl should batten down and bail, not run the rigging. How could she help but make a mess of things, the state that she was in? She'd strayed from the true way of things. First you set yourself to rights. And then your house. And then your corner of the sky. And after that . . .

But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves.

And remember, small thaws make great floods, so be twice wary of a slowly changing season.

No podías nadar contra la corriente ni cambiar la dirección del viento. ¿Y si había tormenta? Pues tenías que atrancar las escotillas y achicar, y no soltar las jarcias.

Think then, how do you entertain the people who have seen your act a thousand times? You dust off the old tricks. You try out some new ones. You hope for the best. And, of course, the grand failures are as entertaining as the great successes.

Había aprendido a dormir con cosas mucho peores que aquello. En el pasado, antes de que llegara él. Antes de que ella tuviera su nuevo nombre, dulce y perfecto.

old habits die slow deaths.

But old habits die slow deaths.

The Lethani is like water," I responded without thinking. "It is itself unchanging, but it shapes itself to fit all places. It is both the river and the rain.

in the same way that winter was always cold. You complained, took sensible precautions, and got on with the business of living your life.

Took an arrow in the knee on my way through the Eld three summers ago. It gives out every now and then." He grimaced and said wistfully, "It's what made me give up the good life on the road." He reached down to touch his oddly bent leg tenderly.

Cada uno se come una parte. diferente del cerdo —me había dicho—. Si quieres que te. acepten, haz lo mismo.» En diferentes lugares, diferentes decoros.

Moving was a lesson in punitive anatomy.

could indicate she doesn't know who she is," he said. "Or that she does know, and doesn't like it." He looked up and rubbed his nose thoughtfully. "It could indicate restlessness and dissatisfaction. It could mean her nature is changeable and she shifts her name to fit it. Or it could mean she changes her name with the hope it might help her be a different person.

leave where I'm not welcome," she said matter-of-factly. "Everything else I can make up along the way.

small thaws make great floods, so be twice wary of a slowly changing season.

Bir düÅŸünün hele, bundan yüz y?l önce olan ya da böyle bir buluÅŸ konusu olan bir ÅŸey, bugün art?k bir Allah'?n kulunu bile heyecanland?ramayacak kadar s?radan hale geliyor.

Era fuerte como una bacteria resistente, y frugal como la garrapata, que se inmoviliza en un árbol y vive de una minúscula gota de sangre que chupó años atrás.

Attitude aside, a man in a five–hundred–dollar suit, no matter how wrinkled or soiled, does not take to street life nearly as easily as a fish takes to smog. First

Do things my way and we'll get along just fine.