Quotes About Adaptation

Life isn't fair," he whispered. "Sometimes, you just have to make the most of what you've got.

It suffered and died in translation.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

Give a man five years, and, with unfortunate exceptions of course, he will find his level on the Pacific, and his place, whether high or low, as naturally as a stream of water.

He was never quite at home in what we may call our post-positivist era

She said she thought there were different ways of loving someone, and there were some she used to think were the most important, and now she had changed her mind.

Manhattan can be beautiful, Ellis, if you are willing to see it and not compare it to what you loved before

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

I actually plan to mess up my life and start over every seven years. That way, I'll never get in a rut. I read somewhere that most of your cells only live about seven years anyway, so in theory you literally are a new person; I figure that's the best time to start over.

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

All you can do is take each day as it comes. Try and do the best you can with what you're given. You won't always do the right thing, but you can try. And you can try to do the right thing next time. That, and stay alive.

Aye, well, we all play the cards we're dealt." "Some of us do. Some of us kill men with better cards and play theirs instead.

What? A family?" Ninefingers frowned, rubbing grimly at the stump of his middle finger. "I did have one. And now I've got another. You don't pick your family, you take what you'er given and you make the best of it." He pointed at Ferro, then at Quai. "You see her, and him, and you?" He slapped his hand down on Jezal's shoulder. "That's my family now, and I don't pal on losing a brother today, you understand?

One can't step into the river twice

To a large extent, then, the position of women and girls worsened in the early nineteenth century because the work of most of them did not change at a time when everything else was changing very rapidly. Those

War is not natural. We have to be trained for it, soldiers and citizens alike.

revisions based on readers' responses, however trying, make things better.

I don't know what to do with the space. Rain used to fill it. How do you fill empty space?

if her hands were full and she was wearing pants with no pockets.

what yesterday affected us strongly, is to-day but imperfectly felt, and to-morrow perhaps shall be disregarded.

It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.

My curiosity about this country intensified…and so I went. I discovered that, like all canyons, they have a powerful sense of direction and this becomes imprinted upon one's way of thinking: there are upcanyon and downcanyon, and one adjusts to that simple fact. More than anywhere else I sensed that here one must fit into the landscape, must know what is there and where, in order to survive. These canyons, like the ocean and the air, are unforgiving.