Quotes about Adaptation

Christian' makes a poor adjective

The most oft-cited line of Newman's An Essay on the Development of Doctrine is situated in this context: "In a higher world it may be otherwise; but here below, to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." So indeed, Pope John's Newman-like image of the "flourishing garden of life" effectively holds off a stuffy traditionalism.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.

I suppose we'll get used to being grownup in time. There won't be so many unexpected things about it by and by—though, after all, I fancy it's the unexpected things that give spice to life.

Changes ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things... Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy.

I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged!

And did she talk to him after that as usual? asked Sara Ray. Oh, yes, she was just the same as she used to be, said the Story Girl wearily. But that doesn't belong to the story. It stops when she spoke at last. You're never satisfied to leave a story where it should stop, Sara Ray.