Quotes About Adaptation

No se modifica la vida sin modificarse a uno mismo

Avevo torto di pretendere che la vita si conformasse a un ideale stabilito in anticipo; stava a me mostrami all'altezza di ciò ch'essa mi portava.

Tomorrow morning the walls will stop spinning, the furniture and books will be in their proper places, always the same places. And my ideas, too, will fall back into place, and I'll begin to live again from day to day, without turning my head, looking just so far and no farther into the future.

Art and science do not establish themselves despite failure but through it;

Mis relaciones con las cosas no están dadas, no son fijas; las creo minuto a minuto, algunas mueren, algunas nacen y otras resucitan. Sin cesar cambian.

We had taken to living out of step. I resented his gaiety now that I had become low-spirited.

The most scandalous aspect of any scandal is that one gets used to it.

Whatever she might become she would never be static.

He even got used to living in a lack of privacy like that of a monkey in a Zoo. After a time he could without self-consciousness sit and read the Paris editions

He had, for a few days, forgotten that wherever he traveled, he must take his own familiar self along, and that that self would loom up between him and new skies, however rosy. It was a good self. He liked it, for he had worked with it. Perhaps it could learn things. But would it learn any more here, where it was chilled by the unfamiliarity, than in his quiet library, in solitary walks, in honestly auditing his life, back in Zenith?

But I wonder about Chapter Twenty. Will there be the deuce to play? . . . Just because life is more easy and human here, I feel more out of it.

But after a fortnight he could enter the lounge, ignore the human furniture, and rustle his newspaper with almost as much relaxation as he had felt in his library in Zenith. He was becoming accustomed to the home of the homeless.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

The charlatan is always the pioneer. From the astrologer came the astronomer, from the alchemist the chemist, from the mesmerist the experimental psychologist. The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.

TIRESIA Medita su questi portenti, figlio. È comune a tutti gli uomini errare. Ma, dopo che ha errato, non sarà stolto né infelice colui che vi rimedia e non resta irremovibile. L'ostinazione condanna alla stoltezza.»

She discovered that the most comfortable position in society was slightly off to the side...

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...

It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.

I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say Sushi! out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, T-bone steak!

We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.

Ciao, I say casually, and flick my hair back. Si. Ciao. I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words.

But that's what happens in life. People find new friends and new sisters. It's called natural selection.

People break up. It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.