Quotes About Adaptation

Perhaps it was necessary that races doomed to live on the same soil should give way to each other, and adopt each other's pursuits.

Those sort of rules are all gone by now," said Mr. Arabin. "Everything has gone by, I believe," said Tom Staple. "The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.

When they are married, yes; and every girl who thinks of marrying should know that in very much she must adapt herself to her husband. But I do not think that a woman should be the ivy, to take the direction of every branch of the tree to which she clings. If she does so, what can be her own character? But we must go on, or we shall be too late.

A man raises a woman to his own standard, but a woman must take that of the man she marries.

Frank Gresham, when twitted with being a Whig, foreswore the de Courcy family; and then, when ridiculed as having been thrown over by the Tories, foreswore his father's old friends. So

Occorre persuadere molta gente che anche lo studio è un mestiere, e molto faticoso, con un suo speciale tirocinio ,oltre che intellettuale,anche muscolare-nervoso: è un processo di adattamento,è un ambito acquisito con lo sforzo,la noia e anche la sofferenza

Who (people from her other life) didn't know how much work it could be to make people think you you were normal.

if I'm sure I'm right, there is little hope of seeing where I am failing. So I keep trying the same old things-

What doesn't work in the box 1. Trying to change others 2. Doing my best to "cope" with others 3. Leaving 4. Communicating 5. Implementing new skills or techniques

Until recently, I lived in a world where lost things could always be replaced. But it has been made overwhelmingly clear to me now that anything you think is yours by right can vanish, and what you can do about that is nothing at all.

Life, so plodding and seemingly circumscribed, was labile, fragile.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

better not bring up a lion inside your city, But if you must, then humour all his moods.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.

Imitation is natural to man from childhood, one of his advantages over the lower animals being this, that he is the most imitative creature in the world, and learns at first by imitation.

Mary Ann was shaken until she noticed that the landlady was smiling. "You'll get used to my babbling," said Mrs. Madrigal. "All the others have." She walked to the window, where the wind made her kimono flutter like brilliant plumage.

Life goes on, sport.

Would she ever stop feeling like a colonist on the moon?

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.