Quotes About Evolution

some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands

A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.

When I was little, I listened to radio serials, read comic books and went to 'B' movies. When I got a little older I listened to big band swing, read slick magazines and went to 'A' movies. When I got even older I listened to F-M stereo, read literary quarterlies and went to foreign movies. And then the pop-culture movement began. Now I listen to old radio serials, read comic books and go to revivals of 'B' movies. In a society without standards who needs to grow up?

It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.

To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

Oh! Old rubbish! Old letters, old clothes, old objects that one does not want to throw away. How well nature has understood that, every year, she must change her leaves, her flowers, her fruit and her vegetables, and make manure out of the mementos of her year!

Oh ! Les vieilleries ! Vieilles lettres, vieux vêtements, vieux objets dont on ne veut pas se débarrasser. Comme la Nature a bien compris que, tous les ans, elle doit changer de feuilles, de fleurs, de fruits et de légumes, et faire du fumier avec les souvenirs de son année ! (19 octobre 1906)

Der Kern des Problems bestand darin, dass »man(n)« mit einer fremden Spezies konkurrieren musste. Man(n) konnte von Natur aus nicht größer, schneller, behaarter, muskulöser sein als ein Pferd. Jede Form von Wettkampf war chancenlos.

All the early stages took place in water: the origin of life; the birth of animals, the evolution of nervous systems and brains, and the appearance of complex bodies that makes brains worth having [...] When animals did crawl onto dry land, they took the sea with them. All the basic activities of life occur in water-filled cells bounded by membranes, tiny containers whose insides are remnants of the sea.

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

It's funny isn't it, how everything's changing all time. Nothing stays still.

Change & transformation. That kind of magic.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments…

Changes can only come gradually and slowly.... (In a letter from Empress Frederick to the future Queen Sophie of Greece)

It was a damned good thing men couldn't have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

It was not that he'd changed her; all of the seeds were already there. But with him, she grew.

We are no better than animals if we cannot learn from our mistakes and move forward.

Love grows and changes every day. And it isn't like some thunderbolt from the sky, instantly transforming you into a different man. I know Benedict says it was that way for him, and that's just lovely, but you know, Benedict is not normal." Colin very much wanted to take that bait, but he just couldn't summon the energy.

It's not their fault that their conversation is useless. They'll grow out of it. People are like fine wines. If they start off good, they only get better with age.

Things are different now," she said firmly, hoping to put an end to the subject. "You can't compare the two.

Men. The day they learned to admit a mistake was the day they became women.

I wanted 'Comme si' to immediately indicate that something changed in my life, mainly because I became the hero of my own desires instead of just dreaming about them.