Quotes About Evolution

So even though it doesn't seem like anything's changed- things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That's how it goes, I guess.

Five years behind me, but somehow with his shit together.

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough space for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

So even though it doesn't seem like anything's changed— —things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That's how it goes, I guess." Sofia nodded. "Funny how we say it goes. That's the way life goes.

They have left the first stage of romance—the rhapsody of us. Where everything is you-me or me-you or a giddily tentative we. Now him and her are asserting themselves, each given a private, pensive depth. Within the rhapsody of us, Elijah could think, I don't really know you, but I will. Now he is not so sure.

Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good.

I do believe that most of the times your life changes, you don't realize in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered.

That's the thing about life and love - every time you take another look at them, there's something else that can be revised.

there's something important about going back to books you've already read. You will always find new thing inside or have new reaction to characters you thought you already knew well. You learn more about the story and you also learn more about yourself as a reader, and where you are in life.

metamorphosis, n.: Love turns us into winged creatures, venturing in ways we never could have conceived in our crawling days.

We think that time is the only thing that passes, but it also changes our relationship to places.

flux, kb. perubahan yang terus-menerus. Situasi alami. Suasana hati kita berubah. Kehidupan kita berubah. Perasaan kita terhadap satu sama lain berubah. Perilaku kita berubah. Lagunya berubah. Udaranya berubah. Temperatur air pancuran berubah. Terimalah. Kita harus menerimanya.

And this is what happened. We both took it as an opportunity to peel the wallpaper from our lives. The only thing I kept out were the photographs of my friends and family, placed on a wall with photographs of your friends and (less so) family on the other end, as if they were meeting for the first time, still too shy or wary to mingle.

Wierz?, ?e du?e zmiany w ?yciu przychodz? niezauwa?one; nie spodziewamy si? ich nawet na chwil? przed.

The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age.

Cuando eres amiga de alguien desde hace tiempo, es fácil pensar que te pertenece, como si la versión de la persona de la que te hiciste amiga fuera la única real. Si de pequeña no le gustaban los guisantes, nunca le gustarán, y si de repente cambia de idea y le encantan, es que se está engañando, ocultando su odio por los guisantes, fingiendo ser alguien que no es.

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time. Then people will get to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and wonder what happened—how we all became so imperfect.

Our brains needed to be able to do more than simply create models of the world. The power of imagination took root in the brains of our ancestors because it helped them predict uncertain futures.

Those who in principle reject an evolutionary account of collective human violence must either deny its existence -which is surely a quixotic move- or else provide an alternative hypothesis. So far, no coherent alternative has been suggested.

Violence has followed our species every step of the way in its long journey through time.

The more we learn about ourselves and our history, the more we are confronted with our extraordinarily violent character.

Within-species sexual conflict arms races are analogous to arms races between predators and prey.

The key point is that men who have success in attracting women are typically more likely to use coercion, and those who are less successful are less likely to use coercion. These findings refute the evolution-based mate-deprivation hypothesis of rape.

Female choice about when, where, with whom, and under which conditions they consent to sex is the deepest and most fundamental component of women's sexual psychology. It is a fundamental human right. Although men have coevolved strategies to undermine it, that freedom of choice should never be compromised.