Adapted Quotes

162 quotes by 152 authors

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal… — Henry A. Wallace
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. — Edith Wharton
Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed,… — Andrew Weil
Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy… — Ai Weiwei
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. — Woodrow Wilson
I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me… — Steve Yzerman
The sight of a childâ€¦will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons â€” longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts… — Carl Jung
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded,… — Thomas S. Monson
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it,… — Michael Pollan
Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of… — Steven Pinker
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively,… — Robert A. Heinlein
Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely adapted to the… — Haruki Murakami
Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may… — Michael Shermer
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. — Henry David Thoreau
It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life. — Meg Wolitzer
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit,… — Mary Gaitskill
The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to… — William A. Dembski
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances… — George Packer
I didnâ€™t and donâ€™t want to be a â€˜feminineâ€™ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary… — Joanna Russ
That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at another time He… — Joseph Smith, Jr.

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