Quotes about Adaptation

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

Well, sir," Athey said, "where I used to be limber I'm stiff and where I used to be stiff I'm limber. Do you know what I'm talking about?

It was as though I knew without exactly knowing, or felt, or smelled in the air, the already accomplished fact that nothing would ever be simple for me again. I never again would be able to put my life in a box and carry it away.

Po jakim? czasie cz?owiek przyzwyczaja si?, zapomina i nawet nie czuje, ?e zimno, bo zapomnia?, co to jest ciep?o.

I reckon she's right. I reckon if there's ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with His mind at rest, it would be Cora. And I reckon she would make a few changes, no matter how He was running it. And I reckon they would be for man's good. Leastways, we would have to like them. Leastways, we might as well go on and make like we did.

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.