Quotes About Evolution

Honestly it wasn't Susanna I was tired of, not really; it was me, wronged innocent, white knight, cunning investigator, killer, selfish oblivious dick, petty provocateur, take your pick, what does it matter? it'll all change again

When Cal hangs up he has the same empty feeling he always gets after talking to Alyssa these days, a sense that somehow, in spite of having been on the phone for all that time, they haven't had a conversation at all; the whole thing was made of air and tumbleweed, nothing solid there. When she was a little kid she would trot along holding his hand and tell him everything, good and bad, it all poured straight from her heart to her mouth. He can't remember when that changed.

This watching through cool intent eyes and delicately adjusting one factor or another till a man's fundamental instinct for self-preservation cracks, is savagery in its most pure, most polished and most highly evolved form.

I was twelve, after all, an age at which kids are bewildered and amorphous, transforming overnight, no matter how stable their lives are;

Then the pints will get further apart, and then one of us will get into a relationship and won't be around as much; the texts will start with Hey, too long no see, and all of a sudden we'll realize it's been a year since we met up.

What I didn't know then was that you can't make people different, whatever you do. They have to do it themselves.

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

It was men like that, she decided, that made her eternally grateful to be a woman! She didn't know why Harlan was so obsessed with discovering primitive man. All he had to do was look about him: In Sophie's estimation, mankind had not progressed very far!

Thousands of years from now they will use my fossil remains as an example of a mistake in the evolutionary process

and sleepily thought of how technology was no longer the source of wonderment and possibility it had been...

each moment of being herself, she knew, was a strengthening, an adapting, of who she was; and she didn't want to be who she was—that she would squeak a little.

There goes that schema again!"—we can take steps to change what happens next.

Change is ceaseless.

A schema represents an outmoded holdover from earlier learning. In other words, remind yourself, "I'm having this reaction because of what I learned to do back then, not because of what's actually happening right now.

And with this loosening of our usual identifications, we become less defined by our reactions as we widen the scope of who we think we are.

my choices still follow me. They are a part of me.' 'Only if you let them be. Yes, choices define your life, Soph, but you make new ones every single day. Life is a work in progress, and how we define it changes as we change, as our choices change.

This experience sparked the reshaping of my thought process that has continued throughout my life.

It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.

Change did not always lead to improvements, sometimes only to change.

Everything was almost the same with her, but she went about her business in a way that put me in mind of an old matchbook. You can scratch the head against the strip in the same way you always have, but you are not going to get any kind of spark.

My skin stayed the same while this difference snuck in through a pore and attached itself to whatever brittle part forms my center.

After a year, I was ready to get this show on the road, creating a new generation with an updated set of rules and regulations

When something happens that eclipses the imaginable, it changes a person. It's like the difference between a raw egg and a scrambled egg. It's the same thing, but it's not the same at all.

But in truth, I was different now, burning and anointed.