Quotes about Adaptation

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.

It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue (German) ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example. It is still clinging to one or two things which were useful once, but which are not useful now, neither are they ornamental.

He worked up his old battles and tricked them out with fresh splendors; also with new terrors, for he added artillery now.

The only person who likes change is a wet baby.

A surgeon in charge of my surgery rotation said that he knew who I was but that he was going to treat me as if I was normal. I sincerely thanked him and told him I would try to act that way.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.

you will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile,laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you

Lord, help me to accept my tools. However dull they are, help me to accept them. And then Lord, after I have accepted my tools, then help me to set out and do what I can do with my tools.