Quotes about Adaptation
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
— Cormac McCarthy
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
— William Barclay
Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.
— Albert Einstein
The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw
To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.
— CS Lewis
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
— Phillips Brooks
From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Every man is a new method.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
— Henry David Thoreau
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
— Henry David Thoreau
I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.
— WP Kinsella
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
— Fr. Richard Rohr