Adapted Quotes

• I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.

  

  Emily Murphy
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Women

• Wonder, Carlyle declared, is the beginning of philosophy. It is not wonder, but rather the social enthusiasm which revolts from the sordidness of mean streets and the joylessness of withered lives, that is the beginning of economic science. Here, if in no other field, Comte's great phrase holds good: "It is for the heart to suggest our problems; it is for the intellect to solve them.... The only position for which the intellect is primarily adapted is to be the servant of the social sympathies.

  

  Arthur Cecil Pigou
  • Social
  • Intellect
  • Sympathies

• Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Read

• I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Why

• If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse; that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Excuse

• What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

  

  Plato
  • Character
  • Adapted
  • Festive

• Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Mass
  • Spectacles
  • Human Courage

• Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Different
  • Body
  • Suits

• What we've found is a whole new pattern of change that we hadn't thought of before. They changed their attitude toward the colony over time - and they really adapted to the reality they found in Virginia.

  

  William M. Kelso
  • Reality
  • Attitude
  • Found

• We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Real
  • Philosophy
  • Tree

• The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Funny
  • Racing
  • Drivers

• Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment?

  

  Harvey V. Fineberg
  • Kind
  • Environment
  • Inspiration

• As gang members, as young dudes in the streets, especially in L.A., we're the effect of a situation. We didn't wake up and create our own mindstate and our environment; we adapted our survival instincts.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • Environment
  • Instinct
  • Members

• Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.

  

  Arie de Geus
  • Environment
  • Company
  • Adapted

• Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Style
  • Said
  • Clothes

• I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Scene
  • Real World
  • Adapted

• Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Science
  • Humanity
  • Progress

• I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

  

  Carrie Coon
  • Book
  • Bigs
  • Reader