Quotes About Evolution

Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before.

Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to the truth. Bit by bit we crept along. As if that thing we believed to be approaching actually existed.

On one end there was who you were before you went underground, and on the other end a new person steps out into the light.

Cherish your old apartments and pause for a moment when you pass them. Pay tribute, for they are the caretakers for your reinventions.

Part of moving up in the world is realizing how much shit you used to eat.

People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities.

The publicity of the present day causes that no sooner is a discovery or an invention made than it is already improved upon and surpassed by competing efforts.

It was in the realm of his humor, and Carney had doubtless laughed. You get older and the old jokes grow less funny.

Bitince yenisine ba?lars?n,' dedi. 'Ama bu daha bitmedi.

I'm all for your people. You might not think so, but I am. I'm all for colored progress, but gradual. You can't do everything overnight--that would be chaos.

It's one thing to understand the muck of things, accept it, live in it, and quite another to have that muck change so suddenly and dramatically, to stumble down to a newer, deeper shelf.

It was where we mingled with who we had been and who we would be. Sharing space with our echoes out in the sun.

From then on whenever he heard the song he thought of the death of Munson. They always said that when the old city disappeared and something new took its place.

By his sights, the real movie started after the first one ended, in the impossible return to things before

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.

Sometimes you've got to go up to a very high floor to see what the past has done to the present.

La vida tiene una interesante forma de cambiar tus planes y de cambiar incluso aquello que crees que quieres.

different from who I thought myself to be.

Sometimes you'll hear, 'People don't change.' This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: 'People don't change.' It says 'don't,' not 'can't.' (316)

And what about man? Are you sure that the human world is a terminal point in the evolution of the cosmos? Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man's world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?

Then I pushed forward with the following question: "And what about man? Are you sure that the human world is a terminal point in the evolution of the cosmos? Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man's world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?

And what about man? Are you sure that the human world is a terminal point in the evolution of the cosmos? Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man's world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?

And what about man? Are you sure that the human world is a terminal point in the evolution of the cosmos?