Quotes About Adaptation

Have you ever seen a battlefield?" Monk asked him. "I have, once. I've never known such horror in my life, but Hester knew what to do. Forget your preconceptions, Rathbone; this will be reality.

Charlotte felt a pity for her, because her world was changing, and she did not understand it; it had no place for her. She was like one of Mr. Darwin's dinosaurs, dangerous and ridiculous, beyond its time.

And if they are forced to a new idea, they turn it over like a child with a toy.

sometimes it's not the errors you make but how you recover from them that mark the difference between failure and success

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

You have to pass away from what failed you into what can sustain you. Otherwise - there is no hope.

There was never a mention, never a declaration or a decision. But the long hours of talking stopped. No more reading aloud, or music, or films. And after that there was simple physical affection, the two walking arm in arm, or Maharet at her reading with Mekare sitting motionless on a bench nearby.

Apparently each century yields a new kind of vampire, or let us say that our course of growth was not set in the beginning any more than the course of human beings.

In the story of the prince and the frog, there's always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.

I think you're like a man who loses an arm or a leg and keeps insisting that he can feel pain where the arm or leg used to be.

Civilizations rise and fall, my friend,' I said. Old gods give way to new ones.

You see, sometimes, Alex, we have to lose things to learn compassion. And sometimes we are overcome by change that arrives with some measure of violence, but leaves us transformed for the better.

Those clothes. Impossible. I mean, tomorrow night, as they say in the twentieth century, you will lose that sweater and those pants.

I saw him in human guise, dancing for humans, as if he were one of them. I smiled in my sleep, as I saw the modern world enfold him, unbelieving, amused, and dancing to his own rhythms.

Amadeo had once more been stolen from a way of life to be take to another unexplicable place.

Rome swallowed things and made them Roman.

Twist the poetry as you will.

Our biggest mistake worldwide is our insistence on perceiving every new development as a culmination or a climax. The great "at last" or "inth degree." A constitutional fatalism continuously adjusts itself to the ever-changing present. A pervasive alarmism greets every advance. For two thousand years we have been getting "out of hand.

They adjust, I believe that's the word. They adjust and they reach for the stars in their own way. I tell you it's wondrous to me. They make me think of the wildflowers that grow in the cracks of the pavements, just pushing up into the sun, no matter how many feet crush them down

Probablemente. Quizá lo que trato de decirte es que si vamos a estar juntos durante mucho tiempo, deberás acostumbrarte a mí. Tendrás que habituarte a la evasión. Así es como yo soy.

So Aaron had become one of them, you might say." "Yes," she answered. "In all respects.