Quotes About Adaptation

The thing is, you can get used to anything. You think you can't, you want to die, but you don't. You won't. You just are.

The sun will rise tommorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

Maybe you and I have to learn how to live with what we saw. With what we know.

How can I remember a world that isn't mine? One that isn't the one I wake up in every day now?

Ray makes me shower once a week and I hate coming out of the bathroom. I hate knowing he's waiting for me, that he will rub his hands and himself all over me and whisper things. His hands used to make me cry, but now I'm used to them. The thing is, you can get used to anything. You think you can't, you want to die, but you don't. You won't. You just are.

La mantequilla sube diez centavos. El ser humano baja.

You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.

You get used to things, he thinks, without getting used to things.

But never mind, Olive thinks now. You move aside and make way for the new.

Women grieve, and men replace.

People always kept moving, her mother had said, it's the American way. Moving west, moving south, marrying up, marrying down, getting divorced—but moving.

But it's never starting over, Cindy, it's just continuing on.

I thought of how my life had become so different from what I had ever imagined for myself during these—my last—years.

And living with this pandemic was like that. You did not know.

People live with things," Bernie said. "They do. I am always amazed at what people live with.

We are only doing what we can to get through.

The trees off to the side have been cut down to make a parking lot. You get used to things, he thinks, without getting used to things.

I could not stop feeling that life as I had known it was gone. Because it was. I knew this was true.

Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex.

We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Men's Understanding.

ornery enough that they will not stay where the rule was laid down. In that I believe you will find the greatest hope for America's future. —William S. Knudsen

the zoologist Konrad Lorenz, whose studies of animal behavior (the best known is On Aggression) stressed Haeckel's notion that animal and habitat—including man and his environment—form a single unit