Adapted Quotes

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other. — Josh Billings

The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined. — Lars Leksell

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction. — Leonardo Da Vinci

As for meat, let me say it upfront:Humans haven't fully adapted to eating meat. — Ori Hofmekler

Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it. — Ian Tattersall

The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats. — Cesar Vallejo

Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health and all cultures. — Mark Whitwell

the protective energies have adapted toward defending the individual psychologically, rather than physiologically. — Michael A. Singer

It was adapted to climbing apple trees and running after gazelles, not to clearing rocks and carrying water buckets. — Yuval Noah Harari

I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar. — Peter Riegert

A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way. — Peter Farb

Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture. — Winston Damarillo

I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from. — Charles Dance

Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use. — Janine Benyus

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. — Stokely Carmichael

As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass. — Billy Sheehan

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life. — Meg Wolitzer

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England — Washington Irving

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted. — Pema Chodron

I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject. — Philippe Claudel

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

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