Quotes about Adaptation

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Whatever gets you through the night is all right.

Pugs are creatures of habit.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

But the changes from the crab apple to the pippin, from the wolf and fox to the house dog, from the charger of Henry V to the brewer's draught horse and the racehorse, are real; for here Man has played the god, subduing Nature to his intention, and ennobling or debasing life for a set purpose. And what can be done with a wolf can be done with a man.

If we desire a certain type of civilisation and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.