Quotes About Evolution

Those days were easy in comparison with

every exit is an entrance to somewhere else.

Emotional identity drifts over a lifetime - if fast and far enough, one may encounter a stranger's heart where a friend's or lover's once dwelt.

I suppose that at some early moment of his existence he concluded that there was no future in being a dog. And so, with the tenacity which marked his every act, he set himself to become something else. Subconsciously he no longer believed that he was a dog at all, yet he did not feel, as so many foolish canines appear to do, that he was human. He was tolerant of both species, but he claimed kin to neither.

A small smile tipped up one corner of her mouth as she remembered that first night, and how ridiculously out of his element Naveen had been. She glanced over at him now, taking in his strong and handsome profile. He'd changed so much in the year since she'd first met him. He was no longer the spoiled little rich boy who thought he could get by on his looks and charm. Though he'd surely won her over with that charm in the end.

She was struck once again by how different he was from that self-absorbed cad he'd been when she had met him a year earlier. Despite her best efforts not to, she'd fallen in love with him then. It would be so very easy to love this kinder, more considerate Naveen.

No matter how important the present appeared, it soon turned to the past

Dissatisfaction of who you are today is the first step of becoming who you want to be tomorrow.

Las personas nunca cambian; cambian las circunstancias. Y esa variación es la que modifica las relaciones entre las personas.

Las personas nunca cambian; cambian las circunstancias. Y esa variación es la que modifica las relaciones entre las personas. Las

Qué esfuerzo! ¡Qué esfuerzo del caballo por ser perro! ¡Qué esfuerzo del perro por ser golondrina! ¡Qué esfuerzo de la golondrina por ser abeja!

He renunciado a la difícil conquista de saber cómo era yo en aquellos tiempos y cómo soy ahora, en qué cosas era mejor o peor antes que ahora.

Only the early Fitzgerald was great. Then came an orgy of brutal realism

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

The past," as the British novelist L. P. Hartley wrote, "is a foreign country. They do things differently there.

Semper versans, semper in motu. (mereu ratacind, mereu in miscare)

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly, and what appears not to move at all.

C à son arrivée se montre poli, prévenant et honnête ; c'est un comédien. Il faudra lui apprendre à être lui-même. Et enfin, le temps aidant, à devenir un autre. (p. 17)

A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist

Nunca somos lo que fuimos ayer, doctor, nunca seremos mañana los mismos de hoy... Y la vida se nos escapa imitándonos a nosotros mismos y tratando, como Kafka, de solucionar el enigma de nuestra propia identidad.

La historia no se repite, pero a veces se parodia a sí misma

Pero la historia ha dado y da muchas vueltas: no es unidireccional.

As We Move On We Will Grow

The history of Argentinian literature should be divided into two periods: before Borges (before 1941) and after Borges (after 1941).