Quotes about Adaptation

All politicians, no matter how gifted, ultimately depend on circumstances for their success.

The Church knows too that to marry the present age and its spirit is to become a widow in the next.

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Change in all things is sweet.

As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant.

I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.