Quotes About Adaptation

When you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement.

He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar.

The world was changing so fast it was hard to keep up. Grigori had never been inside

No candidate is perfect' said Lloyd. 'It's how you deal with your weaknesses that matters

He had heard that people who had the toes chopped off one foot could not stand up, but fell over constantly until they learned to walk again. He felt like that, as if part of him had been amputated, and he could not get used to the idea that it was gone forever.

Nothing is permanent, except change.

Growing up is learning to deceive.

People change'. Weak women change to please men, Lili thought.

The original eight cryptanalysts were supplemented, after Pearl Harbor, by some of the musicians from the band of the sunken battleship California. For reasons no one understood, musicians were good at decoding.

Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

un líder debe tratar a la opinión pública del mismo modo en que un marinero se aprovecha del viento, utilizándolo para impulsar la nave en una dirección u otra, pero nunca intentando ir directamente contra él.

glásnost y perestroika, apertura

Perhaps. Still, somehow Russia must join the twentieth century. Either we, the nobility, must do it, or the people will destroy us and do it themselves.

Changing your beliefs with every change of monarch was called 'policy', and people who did it were 'politicians'.

He could survive anywhere but he belonged nowhere.

Not my usual role,' she said

Todos toman lo que les conviene de las enseñanzas de la Iglesia y dejan de lado aquello que no se adapta a su forma de vida.

Wilson cree que un presidente debe hacer frente a la opinión pública como un velero al viento: debe aprovecharse de ella, pero nunca directamente en contra de ella

S'infilò un vestito da tennis, lungo fino al ginocchio che si era cucita da sola accorciando l'orlo sfilacciato di un vecchio abito di sua madre. Non sarebbe andata a giocare a tennis, ma a ballare e il suo obiettivo era di sembrare americana. Si mise il rossetto e la cipria e si pettinò i capelli sciolti, sfidando la preferenza governativa per le trecce.

Nada es perdurable, salvo el cambio.

S?-?i schimbi credin?a la fiecare schimbare a monarhului se numea "politic?", iar oamenii care f?ceau a?a ceva se numeau "politicieni".

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

The same old rain, and, if not welcomed, at least accepted—an old gray aunt who came to visit every winter and stayed till spring. You learn to live with her. You learn to reconcile yourself to the little inconveniences and not get annoyed. You remember she is seldom angry or vicious and nothing to get in a stew about, and if she is a bore and stays overlong you can train yourself not to notice her, or at least not to stew about her. Which