Quotes About Evolution

We can change. People say we can't, but we do when the the stakes or the pain is high enough.

Each egg hatched a different way, but a crack at the right time speeded things up.

The mind that will not admit it has something more to learn tomorrow is in danger of stagnating.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding of a relationship to a single form. This is not tragedy but part of the ever-recurrent miracle of life and growth.

All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms. But there is no single fixed form to express such a changing relationship.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change

But it is the marriage relationship in which the changing pattern is shown up most clearly because it is the deepest one and the most arduous to maintain; and because, somehow, we mistakenly feel that failure to maintain its exact original pattern is tragedy.

One is free, like the hermit crab, to change one's shell.

In a growing relationship, however, the original essence is not lost but merely buried under the impedimenta of life.

Charlotte felt a pity for her, because her world was changing, and she did not understand it; it had no place for her. She was like one of Mr. Darwin's dinosaurs, dangerous and ridiculous, beyond its time.

It's years since I've been shocked

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.

And you must know we do not really change over time; we are as flowers unfolding, we merely become more nearly ourselves.

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

Our way–the Western Way–has always been a work in progress. Questions of life and death, good and evil, justice and tragedy–these are never definitively settled, but must be addressed again and again as personal and public worlds shift and change. We hold our morals to be absolutes, but the context of our actions and decisions is forever changing. We are not relativists because we seek to re-evaluate again and again our most crucial moral positions.

Every time I stumbled and fell, something in me hardened, became worse. By the time I reached the castle gates; I think I was not Lestat. I was someone else altogether.

Apparently each century yields a new kind of vampire, or let us say that our course of growth was not set in the beginning any more than the course of human beings.

Christmas celebrations in the early colonies to the condemnations today of the commercial nature of the feast.

Nuestro mayor error en todo el mundo es nuestra insistencia en considerar cada nuevo acontecimiento como una culminación o un clímax.

Maybe the old ones are right. I refer now to the true immortals—the blood drinkers who've survived the millennia—who say that none of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are.