Adjustment Quotes

180 quotes by 164 authors

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a… — Robert Rodriguez
My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't… — Mitt Romney
I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment. — Patti Smith
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. — Herbert Spencer
Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly… — Matt Taibbi
The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that… — Dwyane Wade
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of… — Elwyn Brooks White
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
...the change was adjustment without improvement. — Toni Morrison
It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge… — Dag Hammarskjold
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so… — Charles Dickens
The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of… — Christopher Morley
My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says. — S.G. Browne
Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to… — Madeleine L'Engle
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of… — W. E. B. Du Bois
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life… — Thomas Merton
Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence? — Kim Harrison

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