Quotes about Adaptation

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

A life form which can't adapt doesn't last very long.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. It stops us from taking anything for granted. It has also taught me about living in the immediate moment.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

For it is through the prophets that God adapts to our need whatever might seem to us remote and of no concern to us.

My life's a sequel to a movie where the actors' names have changed.

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.