Quotes About Adaptation

Disappointments are just changed appointments.

The person I am today, is not a replica of the person I was, because this edition is limitless.

Volgens mij heeft een mens twee opties. - Namelijk? Of je aanvaardt de dingen zoals ze zijn. En door dat te doen, door je oprecht bij een situatie neer te leggen, ben je niet langer ongelukkig. Of je probeert de bestaande situatie te veranderen.

I've one foot in the grave and the other on a bar of soap.

Durante centenares de miles de años, el hombre luchó para abrirse un lugar en la naturaleza. Por primera vez en la historia de nuestra especie, la situación se ha invertido y hoy es indispensable hacerle un lugar a la naturaleza en el mundo del hombre.

The recovery of biodiversity after major extinctions takes several million years. In the interval, the world is inhabited by a list of species more or less equivalent to ragweed and roaches.

I know my heart will never be the same But I'm telling myself I'll be okay

If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.

Everything was something else before and will be something else after.

Got it in one. Air force brat. I'm from everywhere and nowhere.

This doesn't mean you're damaged. It just means your mind has adapted to feelings of being unsafe. It's a coping mechanism

People didn't like thinking outside the box, apparently. Though to be fair, it was a box that had changed her family's life for the better.

When we lived in Minneapolis, you weren't begging to do photo shoots with strange people. Just because we live in LA now doesn't mean you need to be different. It also doesn't mean you're suddenly famous.

I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I'd have to say I'd like to live in the future - I want to see where these centuries of change are leading us.

It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.

It is strange that what seems at first alien becomes second nature in the blink of an eye.

The old London was fading from her memory. She no longer expected to see the shops that had been bombed when she passed familiar streets. In many places the sites were being redeveloped. That's what seemed real now – the new buildings and the flats above them. As she hit her stride, Mirabelle smiled. It felt good to be in the big city again and on her way.

Sometimes life isn't what we want, it's what we get.

In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work.

The world is changing and you're only just becoming accustomed to it. You're changing, I suppose. You've changed since I've known you.' 'How?' 'You've come more alive.