Adapted Quotes

162 quotes by 152 authors

I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of… — Emily Murphy
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's… — Terrence Rafferty
As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass. — Billy Sheehan
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are… — Aristotle
If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and… — James Hansen
Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old… — Dan Millman
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. — Ronald Fisher
WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US. — Iyanla Vanzant
Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities — Lee Iacocca
Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes. — Sophia Loren
The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted… — Cressida Cowell
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous… — Henri Poincare
Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the… — Grayson Perry
Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health and all cultures. — Mark Whitwell
The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers ended ten yearsago. For ten years Mickey had been saying, "The goldenage of Luncheon Vouchers is over." And that's… — Zadie Smith
Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to… — John Marshall
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling. — Robert Frost
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given… — Johannes Kepler
Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at… — Michael Ondaatje
The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other. — Josh Billings

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