Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander. — Murray Walker Copy Share Image
It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
I was born a trequartista, and have adapted myself to playing in other roles. — Clarence Seedorf Copy Share Image
I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the… — Ray Walston Copy Share Image
Our microeconomic indicators are stable and it gives me reason to believe that we will calmly and steadily pass this uneasy period… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I don't have to be that gentleman ["baddest man on the planet"] anymore. Now I have to be "this" guy. And in… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The realizations of anarchist ideas and practices are like sociopolitical ecosystems. Local versions resemble each other, but they are endlessly adaptive and… — Scott Crow Copy Share Image
That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Women, I learned, adapted. At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I have a very clear perception what the Internet is in my mind. I'm free. I'm not defined by what they say… — Matt Drudge Copy Share Image
Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of… — August Kekule Copy Share Image
Writing is… being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling,… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Neymar is a phenomenon. He adapted to European football very quickly. — Roberto Carlos Copy Share Image
I've been in plays that have been freely adapted from Shakespeare, and sometimes one's wary of those. — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
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