Quotes About Adaptation

One must take the world as one finds it.

Oh, man, man—race of crocodiles

I separated the fat from the meat served to me, melted it, and so made oil—here is my lamp." So saying, the abbe exhibited a sort of torch very similar to those used in public illuminations.

Ac?lar öylesine üstüste gelmiÅŸti ki, neredeyse onlara al??m??t?.

When one lives among madmen, one should train as a maniac.

Cuando se vive con locos, es preciso también aprender a ser insensato.

They took over from the old order not only most of its customs, conventions, and modes of thought, but even those ideas which prompted our revolutionaries to destroy it; that, in fact, though nothing was further from their intentions, they used the debris of the old order for building up the new.

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.

They were prepared for everything except what actually happened.

Americans often change their laws, but the foundation of the Constitution is respected.

Having destroyed an aristocratic society, we seem ready to go on living complacently amid the rubble forever.

We are self-determined by the meaning we give to our experiences; and there is probably something of a mistake always involved when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life. Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. There

She walks. She talks. She adapts. She has been conditioned to respond to the highest bidder.

You are the first to arrive alive in fifty years. You are a puissant man. Arrival of the fittest is the doctrine of the Holy Darwin. Most scientific.

You can't go back and you can't catch up. Happy endings are always bittersweet.

If you can't do it naturally, then fake it.

Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.

But what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

She was good at forgetting; she had practiced for years, and it was now a skill at which she excelled.

Who but a fool would stay in one place and butt her head against the same window time and again?

Maybe you'll both be who you always were if you're given time.