'Rob Roy' was a great adaptation. It was a lot better than 'Braveheart.' — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live. — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival… — Leilani Munter Copy Share Image
Whenever you get game adaptations, it strikes me that it's always the gamers who get mugged because they try and make it… — Joey Ansah Copy Share Image
The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity. — David Hare Copy Share Image
Writing an adaptation is not so much a collaboration as it is a series of steps. You're basically creating a blueprint for… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“The reason is simply the extreme improbability of the preadaptations necessary for it to occur at all. Each of these evolutionary steps… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis. — Tabare Vazquez Copy Share Image
Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation. — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
As China is about adaptation, not transformation, it is unlikely to change the world dramatically should it ever assume the global driver's… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
If we turn to the differences separating Communist, Fascist, and National Socialist regimes, we find that they can be accounted for by… — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather… — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
“When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and… — Michael Crimmins Copy Share Image
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of… — Elsie Clews Parsons Copy Share Image
If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
