Quotes About Adaptation

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! - alice and wonderland

It's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

I know who I was when I woke up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.

the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy--and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all thy other queer noises, would change (she knew) to the confused clamour of the busy farm-yard--while the lowing of the cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

Nature abhors a long silence.

People aren't always what you want them to be

But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.

Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.

No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.

This is how it is now. There is strength in acceptance, Ling. Your legs have been taken from you. But how you choose to live with that has not.

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear

Nobody's killing any cats." Miss Lillian glowered. "It's what we've always done." "Yeah, well, I'm changing how things are done." Miss Lillian started to protest, but Miss Addie cut her off. "Very well. We could stand to change.

Beliefs converge and become something new all the time.

The river is change, and change cannot be stopped. Change, it sings. Change or be lost.

But why on earth?" "When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear

I change the world and the world changes me

Sometimes you had to become a different version of yourself to move safely through certain spaces in the world.

Apple barn's better'n a pig barn," they chortled over coffee mugs in the cafés. After four years they had become accustomed to the sight of Mr. Q's oversize moustache with its melancholy droop. They no longer questioned the unorthodox W in the spelling of Qwilleran. And most of them now accepted the fact that the middle-aged divorced bachelor chose to live alone—with two cats!

They are trying to hold on to a world that no longer exists. They are blind and terrified because they feel it slipping away from them. They are gripping thin air but they keep trying desperately to hold on to it - hoping the air will turn into something familiar and solid.

People change and forget to tell each other.

As others grown more intelligent under stress, I grow heavy, as if I were an animal on a chain.