Quotes About Adaptation

You cannot take a few people from one unit, throw them in with some from another, give them someone else's equipment, and hope to come up with a top-notch fighting unit.

In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.

I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.

I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know.

Embrace what is, steer toward what may yet be.

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it's more important to learn to work with what you've got, under the circumstances you've been given, than wishing for different ones.

Loss reshapes us and teaches us to fill ourselves with something new. If we resist, we feel as you do. Hollow. Empty.

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.

We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.

I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.