A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor… — Emily Murphy Copy Share Image
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other. — Josh Billings 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
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant,… — Pliny the Elder 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
The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render… — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
I believe at its core we have a Constitution, as our Supreme Court's first great justice, Marshall, said in 1819, and I… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
