Quotes About Evolution

Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.

Change is no loss, Will. Not always.

I prefer the school of life.

I think you were the wrong person for the Jace that I was, but not the Jace that I am now, the Jace you helped make me. Who is, incidentally, a Jace I like much better than the old one. You've changed me for the better, and even if you left me, I would still have that.

I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.

Things did change. He'd gone from being eaten up with jealousy of Simon, to a grudging respect for his tenacity and courage, to actually considering him a friend, though he doubted he'd ever say so out loud

I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.I guess that means I've grown up now...

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

Let's here it for modern dentistry, eh?" I said, and he grimaced. Actually, as much as people dislike going to the dentist now, try doing it two hundred years ago, when having a cavity meant some quack knocking it out with a chisel and a hammer in the market square. With no anesthetic.

Nothing is static; things always change. The best you can do is change along with them and work with what you have.

Because you are in the middle of becoming who you will be. It isn't going to be easy. You may need help. So feel free to ask us for it.

Loretta turned her face against his chest, inhaling the scent of his skin, loving the blend of leather and smoke and oil that she had once found so abhorrent. Hunter. When had he become so important to her?

Where we begin is not necessarily our starting point. Every journey has it's mileposts.

I'm all in favor of recycling everything we can, but it's strange to see your past walking around with a new identity.

Incredibly, for an American mom used to fast-changing parenting trends, French child-rearing techniques didn't seem to have changed all that much over the years.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

The six most expensive words in business are: We've always done it that way.

When life goes on doesn't it just trample over what was there before?

against the houses, and turned the streets

All I needed was a little time. A time to get used to the creature who had broken from the chrysalis; the wings yet were feeble and uncertain.

The definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting different results.

sometimes grandparents who are warm and kind may have been far less so when they were parents. People will often mellow in old age.