Quotes About Evolution

This abattement and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees

Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn'd away my former self; So will I those that kept me company.

At first I did adore a twinkling star But now I worship a celestial sun

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

But doth must suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.

New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold But with the aid of use.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I change.

As Carl Rogers, one of the founders of humanistic psychology, once noted: "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I change.

have found that this journey from no to yes with myself is not a single trip, but ultimately a lifelong journey. I have been on this journey for a long time and expect to be on it for as long as I live.

It's Kansas City now

we can't alter the world, we can only adapt ourselves to it.

The silver sword across the sea became tarnished and shrank until it was gone and only the old moon remained, bloated and dark, sinking into the mist.

Ross?» «Sì, fiorellino?» «Ancora fiorellino» disse lei. «Stasera sono stata un bocciolo e un fiorellino. Spero che tra qualche anno non comincino a chiamarmi baccello.» Lui rise a bassa voce ma a lungo.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

Those who never change their minds, never change anything.

Anyone who was not a liberal at 20 years of age had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at 40 had no head.

All great movements, every vigorous impulse that a community may feel, become perverted and distorted as time passes

Time after time, history ran over the luddites and romanticists, those who sought to restore the old and delay the new. And every time, history did it with faster, more reliable and more advanced vehicles.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

change is the best kind of rest.