Quotes About Adaptation

But I guess you learn to stop hoping, after a while. Life teaches you to expect the worst, eh?

The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.

Principles are like clothes,' said Vick, straightening her jacket. 'You have to change them to suit the audience.

The definition of all right changes with the passing winters, I find. I'm about all right by the standards of the last few days. Twenty years ago I'd have considered this close to death.

I hardly know the right terms for anything these days. Even if I did, I fear they would be the wrong ones by tomorrow morning.

When was it exactly that I became... this? By small degrees, I suppose. Once act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and fine we are... this.

You know the trouble with a pretty face?" Judge was saying. "People get used to its advantages, and when it's took away, they lack the wherewithal to make a success of themselves. Nothing sadder'n a person who used to be beautiful. They have this desperate smile. Like me, it says. Like me, even though there's nothing left to like.

The ground must be a general's best friend, or it becomes his worst enemy.

You don't pick your family, you take what you're given and you make the best of it.

A man has to bend with the breeze.' The Great Wolf's grin was wider than ever. 'You're a bastard, Clover. But you're my kind of bastard.' Stour's kind of bastard. That was where all his cleverness had got him.

there was an awful lot a man could be saying fuck about. That's the beauty of the word. It can mean just about anything, depending on how things stand. Horror, shock, pain, fear, worry. None were out of place.

If you build your boat from cheese, d'you see, you can't wail at the heavens when it sinks, for cheese is known to be a poor material for boat-building.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees" Victor Hugo

But we must work with the tools we have, as Savine's father had been so fond of saying.

Life rarely turns out the way we expect. We must bend with the circumstances.

No plan survives contact with the enemy." Helmuth von Moltke

The more you kill, the more you get better at it. And the better you get at killing, the less use you are for anything else.

If men can change like that.' And Monza snapped her fingers in his face. 'That's the only way they do change, ain't it?' His one eye stayed on her. 'If things change enough around 'em? Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.

The thing about rowing, you face backward. Always looking into the past, never the future. Always seeing what you're losing, never what you've got to gain.

Sooner or later, you have to stop expecting folk to bend around your plans and fit your plans to the folk you've got.

What use are straight answers in a crooked world?

Your trouble is, you've got yourself an idea about how life should be, but it's just not how life IS.

The more you kill, the better you get at it. And the better you get at killing, the less use you are for anything else.

Hay tareas para las que no valen los hombres de fiar. Los conejos se cazan con comadrejas, no con bueyes.