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There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. -- Henry Miller
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. -- Stokely Carmichael
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. -- John B. S. Haldane
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. -- Samuel Butler
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. -- Plato
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 to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here. -- Steve Yzerman
I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event. -- Dick Fosbury
Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body. -- Thomas Bulfinch
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. -- Robert Benchley
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. -- William Lyon Phelps
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you. -- Martin Van Buren
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 to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. -- Henry A. Wallace
Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild. -- Norm Dicks
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. -- Elias Canetti
The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted. -- David F. Houston
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects. -- Joseph Lancaster
Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world. -- Chris Chocola
But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor. -- Ray Walston
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously -- Calista Flockhart
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. -- Joseph Butler
The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock. -- Chris Cornell
To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was. -- Nicholas Sparks
WI played a young Helena Bonham Carter in a BBC film called 'A Dark Adapted Eye,' and I thought she was a completely spellbinding person. Totally unmoved by other people's expectations, fashions or opinions. She's probably the coolest English actress there is. Incredibly idiosyncratic. -- Honeysuckle Weeks
There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying. -- John Philip Sousa
The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. -- Bertrand Russell
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. -- Woodrow Wilson
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
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. -- Bill Gates
The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America. -- Lady Gregory
The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper subject and causes the proper actions. -- Giordano Bruno
We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog. -- Robert Lanza
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, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest. -- Andrew Weil
No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran. -- Garret Dillahunt
I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater. But in movies, a glance from someone's eyes will tell you the whole story in a few seconds. -- Stephen Sondheim
Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success. -- Harvey V. Fineberg
'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock. -- Chris Cornell
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 that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.' -- Ai Weiwei
Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope. -- Elaine Pagels
I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers. -- Sylvia Earle
Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture. -- Winston Damarillo
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity. -- Ambrose Bierce
As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted. -- Pema Chodron
Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet. -- Aimee Mullins
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. -- Henry David Thoreau
I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject. -- Philippe Claudel
WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US. -- Iyanla Vanzant
For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around. -- Yves Saint Laurent
I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted. -- Tamara Feldman
Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it. -- Ian Tattersall
Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life. -- Paul Feyerabend
Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England -- Washington Irving
Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use. -- Janine Benyus
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern. -- Shereen El Feki
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. -- Ronald Fisher
As for meat, let me say it upfront:Humans havenâ??t fully adapted to eating meat. -- Ori Hofmekler
Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds. -- Samuel Johnson
What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future. -- Carl Jung
I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books. -- Jeff Lemire
The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander. -- Murray Walker
I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something. -- Carrie Coon
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society. -- Emma Goldman
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion. -- John Armstrong
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling. -- Robert Frost
Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes. -- Sophia Loren
Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others. -- H.W. Brands
We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies. -- Hari Sreenivasan
I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources. -- Henry David Thoreau
The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television. -- James Frain
It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life. -- Meg Wolitzer
The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction. -- John Ruskin
The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other. -- Josh Billings
As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being. -- John Dewey
But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody. -- Derek Bailey
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work. -- Hale Irwin
When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from. -- Charles Dance
Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright. -- Baruch Spinoza
A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way. -- Peter Farb
The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined. -- Lars Leksell
Theory of Evolution (Summary)First, there were some amoebas. Deviant amoebas adapted better to the environment, thus becoming monkeys. Then came Total Quality Management. -- Scott Adams
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
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
People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat. -- Antony Starr
More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler. -- Roger Tory Peterson
We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage. -- J. E. B. Stuart
To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle. -- Arthur Rubinstein
I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight tweets per day . -- Mark Ravenhill
Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose. -- Max Weber
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
One ought not to hoard culture . It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits. -- Wallace Stevens
In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made. -- Solomon Caesar Malan
I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted. -- Ted Nugent
Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment? -- Harvey V. Fineberg
Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning. -- Arie de Geus
God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose. -- J. Oswald Sanders
Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
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 but not compromised away. -- George Packer
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity? -- E. O. Wilson
The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano? -- Cary Fowler
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 made perfect by habit. -- Aristotle
The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables. -- Denis Parsons Burkitt
Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution. -- Eugene Delacroix
If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption. -- Herbert Croly
[...][I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing. -- Anne Bishop
The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations. -- Carl Sagan
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, the scene: they just don't seem real to me. -- Haruki Murakami
The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes in the financial mechanisms and climate. -- Benjamin Graham
Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit . -- Karl Marx
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning. -- Carl Jung
David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to the writing. You're only as good as your writing. -- Rob Lowe
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, does not seem to be one of them. -- Michael Pollan
I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going After Cacciato (by Tim O'Brien) is something I'm very passionate about. -- Gabe Polsky
A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The pejorative term "political correctness" was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe -- Judith Martin
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 women better adapted to make a great country. -- Emily Murphy
We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society. -- Warren Buffett
There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer world by means of methods which should be adapted to the circumstances. -- Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

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