Quotes About Adaptation

A fix-it man, they used to call it, when things still got fixed instead of just junked. If

I thought I had a handle on my future. But the future, it turns out, is not a tote bag.

It's amazing how resilient people are, and how the things that didn't come true become,after a while, simply the way things are.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

I never felt more like kicking, but of course I could not kick such a good master, and so in time I got used to everything...

We have long known that in closed societies, the arrival of democracy, with its clashing voices and differing opinions, can be "complex and frightening," as Stenner puts it, for people unaccustomed to public dissent.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

You'll find a man can live without his money as merrily as a tortoise without its head, or a wasp without its body." '"But

It took some time for acceptance to be reached, and at first she was bitterly lonely ('It is not all a bed of roses to live in a strange country and I am as strange to the people and their ways as they are to me')

the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next.

It is well known that involuntary migrants, no matter what pot they are thrown into, tend not to melt.

You know Anne,' he said quietly, 'when I am with a Hmong or a French or an American person, I am always the one who laughs last at a joke. I am the chameleon animal. You can place me anyplace, and I will survive, but I will not belong. I must tell you that I do not really belong anywhere.

they seemed to accept things that to me were major catastrophes as part of the normal flow of life. For them, the crisis was the treatment, not the epilepsy.

I've drawn myself apart from them all; I am my own skipper and later on I shall see where I come to land

But I can see that a little hypocrisy gets me a lot further than my old method of saying exactly what I think (even though no one ever asks my opinion or cares one way or another). Of

Father has been home a lot lately. There's nothing for him to do at the office; it must be awful to feel you're not needed. Mr. Kleiman has taken over Opekta, and Mr. Kugler, Gies & Co., the company dealing in spices and spice substitutes that was set up in 1941. A few days

That's all right with me, I like changes.

how different we were back then; we don't even recognize ourselves from that period.

Father, Mother and Margot still can't get used to the chiming of the Westertoren clock, which tells us the time every quarter of an hour. Not me, I liked it from the start; it sounds so reassuring, especially at night.

Now that we've been in hiding for a little over a year, you know a great deal about our lives. Still, I can't possibly tell you everything, since it's all so different compared to ordinary times and ordinary people.

the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.