Quotes About Adaptation

Because change will come as it will, and there's nothing we can do to prevent it. In fact, try to stop it and you trip over the turning wheels.

Anything can happen. Just let it be. Accept it, and let it be. Life will sort itself out if you allow it to.

A leader who can't change the culture, is a great technician…

The line of Nature is crooked ... though we dig the canal beds as straight as we can, the rivers run hither and thither in their wildness.

Las mareas calmas no crean marineros hábiles.

Por qué? ¿Y por qué no tenemos plumaje ni alas, sino solamente omoplatos, las bases para las alas? Porque ya no necesitamos alas: porque tenemos aviones y las alas solamente nos estorbarían.

Why? But why don't we have feathers? Or Wings? Nothing but the shoulder blades where wings would be attached? Why, because we no longer need wings. We've got aeros. Wings would only be in the way. Wings are for flying, but we have nowhere to fly to, we've already flown there, we've found it.

If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph Conrad, to become for a time an English writer... ("Letter To Stalin")

The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.

Don't boast because you know too little," Mrs. Pang says. "Things change a lot. Within a blink a mountain flattens and a river dries up. Nobody knows who he'll become tomorrow.

Does marriage have such a revolutionary power that a long-established habit can be overthrown in such a short time?

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats.

The future ain't what it used to be.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

You're way behind the times. Doesn't matter how handy it is. People get rid of anything old. That's modern life for ya.

We will change in order to create the future!

The game has changed. You can't go into a ballgame saying, hey, we have a great defense and we'll win 17-10. Those days, I think, are generally over, except if the Ravens play the Jets.

In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance?

El tiempo nos impulsa hacia delante o hacia atrás y va alterando nuestro aspecto.

They avoided talk of the old days, like a pair weaving in and out among puddles after a rainstorm, so deftly that neither of them found the process awkward.

To live in the midst of an era is to be oblivious to its style. You and I, you see, must be immersed in some style of living or other, but we're like goldfish swimming around in a bowl without ever noticing it.