Quotes About Evolution

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

The ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of dripping water hollows the stone.

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

The next step was the use of huts and skins and fire, And women became the property of one man. So the chaste pleasures of a private Venus Were first invented and couples had their own children. It was then that the human race began to soften.

what can I change so I never have to do this again?

Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future

Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike today, where many of us are searching for our romantic "soul mate," marriage was originally more about economics than deep emotion.

economics is a living thing—and to live implies both imperfection and change.

Nunca e em lugar algum do universo existe estabilidade e imobilidade. Mudança e transformação são características essenciais da vida. Cada estado de coisas é passageiro; cada época é uma época de transição. Na vida humana nunca há calma e repouso. A vida é um processo e não a permanência no status quo.

To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.

The future may unfold in indelible strokes, but it doesn't mean we have to read the same lines over and over.

I can't answer a single one of these, which is how I know that whether I'm ready or not, I'm growing up.

Until then she hadn't considered that there was a trade off, that she might not fit anymore in places where she'd been comfortable.

But identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through—the man you fell in love with years ago might look the same and speak the same and smell the same yet be completely different.

And when your wife is not the same person you fell in love with eight years ago, where exactly does that leave you? Do you try to get to know who she has become, and hope for the best? Or do you keep deceiving yourself in the hope that she might wake up one morning and have gone back to the woman she used to be? May be, Caleb thinks with a small shock, he isn't the same person he once was, either.

All I'm saying is that the past is nothing but a springboard for the future.

I used to have pink hair, I told Seven. I used to have a real job, he answered. What happened? He shrugged. I dyed my hair pink. What happened to you?

It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

Daniel understood that in the blink of an eye you might reinvent yourself. He understood that the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.