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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being
adapted to the author's political views. —
Edith Wharton

In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly
adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made. —
Solomon Caesar Malan

'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter
adapted it for television. —
James Frain

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-
adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat. —
Antony Starr

Nature is as well
adapted to our weakness as to our strength. —
Henry David Thoreau
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WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US. —
Iyanla Vanzant

For me, perfume, must be
adapted to fashion, not the other way around. —
Yves Saint-Laurent

I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was
adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there. —
Susan Hill

Those regulations that are
adapted to the common race of men are the best. —
Sherrilyn Kenyon

In fact, words are well
adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. —
John B. S. Haldane

To be alive, to able to see, to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have
adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle. —
Arthur Rubinstein

I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure
adapted. —
Ted Nugent

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and
adapted to none but very tranquil minds. —
Samuel Johnson

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I
adapted and made them work. —
Hale Irwin

(2) which of these innovations were important enough to be
adapted in other plants? —
Anonymous

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

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get
adapted to my kind of fooling. —
Robert Frost

He saw that nothing was good and nothing was evil; things were merely
adapted to an end. —
W. Somerset Maugham

The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are
adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables. —
Denis Parsons Burkitt

There is no salvation in becoming
adapted to a world which is crazy —
Henry Miller

Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been
adapted from a children's book? —
Spike Jonze

Life sucks. We've
adapted. —
Gena Showalter

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and
adapted the discoveries of others. —
H.W. Brands

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill
adapted for the purpose. —
Woodrow Wilson

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and
adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern. —
Shereen El Feki

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never
adapted anything. —
Harmony Korine

Pray state, this day, on one side of a sheet of paper, how the Royal navy is being
adapted to meet the conditions of modern warfare. —
Michael Paterson

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely
adapted to my resources. —
Henry David Thoreau

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently
adapted to the demands of our current emotion. —
John Armstrong

Adversity is just change that we haven't
adapted ourselves to yet. —
Aimee Mullins

Humane science must be
adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life. —
Paul Feyerabend

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

I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes
adapted; I make comic books. —
Jeff Lemire

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed,
adapted entirely to metallic construction. —
John Ruskin

ENVY, n. Emulation
adapted to the meanest capacity. —
Ambrose Bierce

I regard taking healthy sea level
adapted children to the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea as a form of child abuse. —
Steven Magee

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole
adapted. —
Tamara Feldman

A constitution, intended to
endure for ages to come, and
consequently, to be
adapted to the
various crises of human affairs. —
John Marshall

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

The more highly
adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. —
Ronald Fisher

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely
adapted now that anybody plays with everybody. —
Derek Bailey

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

This room is not well
adapted as a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a portion of our carpet. —
Arthur Conan Doyle

We have an army far better
adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage. —
J. E. B. Stuart

The difference between those who
adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit. —
Arnold Schwarzenegger

All you can hope for when you get a book
adapted for TV is that you get a good actor and not some muppet off 'EastEnders.' —
Mark Billingham

We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have
adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies. —
Hari Sreenivasan

I think any period in history can be
adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect. —
Seth Grahame-Smith

Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always
adapted to changing realities —
Lee Iacocca

What was given to us by the past is
adapted to the possibilities of the future. —
Carl Jung