Quotes About Adaptation

No worthy problem is ever solved in the plane of its original conception.

Reconsideration is hard; it takes courage. We have to deny ourselves the comfort of always being the same person, one who arrived at an answer some time ago and has never had any reason to doubt it.

That day I learned a person can get used to anything. Soon it all seemed normal to us, and we even joked about it

Every human position has a problem with it. Believed in too much, it slides into error. It's not that no position is correct; it's that no position is correct for long. We're perpetually slipping out of absolute virtue and failing to notice, blinded by our desire to settle in—to finally stop fretting about things and relax forever and just be correct; to find an agenda and stick with it.

His headstrong nature, a virtue in that previous place, imperils him here, where the natural law, harsh and arbitrary, brooks no rebellion, and must be scrupulously obeyed.

Every human position has a problem with it. Believed in too much, it slides into error. It's not that no position is correct; it's that no position is correct for long. We're perpetually slipping out of absolute virtue and failing to notice, blinded by our desire to settle in--to finally stop fretting about things and relax forever; to find an agenda and stick with it.

Afterward Freddie takes us to Trabanti's for lunch. Last year Trabanti died and three Vietnamese families went in together and bought the place, and it still serves pasta and pizza and the big oil of Trabanti is still on the wall but now from the kitchen comes this very pretty Vietnamese music and the food is somehow better.

En nuevas formas, el hombre del siglo XXI sigue luchando con el aterrador vacío de la extinción.

My parents first rented a tiny apartment on Chapel Street with their black standard poodle, Turbo. When I arrived, they had to move out because the landlord allowed dogs but not babies. They found a place on Edwards Street, where the owner allowed babies but not dogs. Fortunately, I made the cut and Turbo went to live at Grove Lane.

T]he gradual extension of our settlements will as certainly cause the savage, as the wolf, to retire; both being beasts of prey, though they differ in shape.

Il n'y a pas de désordre, il y a substitution à un ordre attendu ou aimé d'un autre ordre dont on n'a que faire ou dont on a à souffrir.

La santé c'est une marge de tolérance des infidélités du milieu.

Inversement, le propre de la maladie c'est d'être une réduction de la marge de tolérance des infidélités du milieu. Cette réduction consiste à ne pouvoir vivre que dans un autre milieu et non pas seulement parmi quelques-unes des parties de l'ancien. Au fond l'anxiété populaire devant les complications des maladies ne traduit que cette expérience.

You came to France to find out about our methods, and you will have observed that we don't have any.

I'm at sea, lieutenant … We probably both are. Except that you, you fight the waves, you mean to go in a definite direction, whereas I let myself drift with the current, clutching here and there on a passing branch.

No one could have called Mr Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

Perhaps, if she could be busy all the time, as she meant to be, she might not feel so unhappy; perhaps, in household cares, she could forget her love, or grow at least accustomed to desolation.

Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.

The way to resume is to resume. If we knew everything ahead of time, all would be dictation not creation.

the composition of each epoch depends upon the way the frequented roads are frequented.

School might be closing

What works in Washington, D.C. or New York City oftentimes doesn't work out in Billings, Montana, or elsewhere in the country.

No matter what you thought your plans were, that's not how things are going to work out, and that's the only way you can really, I think, live successfully.

Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.