Adapted Quotations

Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope.

Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success.

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

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

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

I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.

The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

Volvo has one weakness, and that is in the interior design. They have not adapted to the Chinese people's perception of luxury when it comes to the interior design, and this has to be addressed.

I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.

The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper subject and causes the proper actions.

We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog.

I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater. But in movies, a glance from someone's eyes will tell you the whole story in a few seconds.

The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman.

Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, ''Into how little space a human being can be crushed?'' I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies.

My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.

Shamrock started out as a pro-wrestler years before he got into fighting. When he started with WWE he picked it up again very fast. He actually turned into a really good worker and adapted to the WWE style, meaning he did more than just shoot-style stuff.

Many Mexican companies have adapted to softer demand by cutting costs and this will be extremely positive for margins once demand picks up in the second half, as we expect.

'Shetland' is adapted from the novel 'Red Bones.' The book is based around an archaeological dig, and the mystery starts with the murder of the elderly woman who crofts the land where the dig is happening.

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.

To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.

He's adapted to that new position well, which is really going to help him come fall. We'll be very deep at linebacker this year. I feel very good about the position.

We are fortunate a number of players can play well in many positions, like Tom Clarke who has adapted well to midfield.

I adapt to my situations. Here, I've got to score. I love scoring, but it doesn't bother me when I don't have to. I love throwing to my big man. I'll do whatever I need to do. I've been around the block, it will be right to me. I've adapted to a lot worse situations.

He was outstanding tonight, he really played well. We just converted him to a keeper this year and he has adapted to it extremely well. We've been real proud of him. ... He kept us in it on a couple of plays.

He was one of the first guys in my office when the new rules came out in training camp. 'What can I do and what can't I do?' It seems like all the rules were going against guys like him. I loved his attitude. He came in and addressed it right away and asked, 'How am I going to play these situations?' He studied it and has adapted very well.

He has been great. He has adapted to the collegiate style of wrestling. He listens, learns and does pretty much what he is told.

Good, for a lack of a better word. He has adapted to what I am trying to do, of where I want to throw and when to use my breaking ball.

We just have to convince (Collins) that there's activity at the position other than just throwing your big body at somebody to block him. But he's adapted to it pretty well. He's still working at it, but he's on track.

That definitely means something. The freshmen have made a lot of difference this year. They have been great. They have adapted well to the way we play.

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?

Sure, there were hopes that Constellation's systems could later be adapted to support more ambitious goals. But Apollo had those hopes, too. It didn't work in 1970, and it wasn't going to work in 2020.

Survival training is one of the biggest ways that we did that. I think four years of that before we flew made us really ready for life on station and we adapted well.

I think Bruno has understood fairly early on what is required for Scottish football. He has adapted well to the pace of the game, which is hectic not just in Scotland but in Britain as a whole. He is decent on the ball, but he knows when to put his foot in and I think we saw that on Saturday. He played well against Motherwell and he can look after himself because he is a tough little cookie. I think people would agree he's done well so far.

Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object, is both a language and an analytical method. In short, the art of reasoning can be reduced to a well-constructed

NASA never really adapted to that new paradigm.

I think most of our young players have adapted to the college life. It takes a while to adjust to those things.

I thought we adapted better in the rain, simply because we were more committed.

WI played a young Helena Bonham Carter in a BBC film called 'A Dark Adapted Eye,' and I thought she was a completely spellbinding person. Totally unmoved by other people's expectations, fashions or opinions. She's probably the coolest English actress there is. Incredibly idiosyncratic.

We found an increasing number of people who like the property but would not use 13 weeks but wanted more than a couple weeks. We adapted to the consumers' demand.

We're all happy for him, that he's done so well and adapted so well. We're all excited about the future.

We had a lot of young guys last year. Guys like Anthony were leaders, surrounded by a lot of young guys. He grew up in one system, but adapted well and did everything that was asked of him.

The Craftsman Collection features an iconic, mission-style design. With Craftsman, we believe we have successfully adapted this classic American form for the new American outdoor room.

We have basically plagiarized the Wal-Mart deal and adapted it for Blair.

Yeah, I made a couple plays out there, but that's what I get paid to do. I do enjoy it. This is a new role that I've kind of adapted to. I can fall in love with it, and I'm having a good time with it.

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.

We are worried about our next game only and not looking ahead. The girls wanted to set some goals at the start of the year, but I told them to just worry about our next game. They have adapted to that and our one goal is just taking care of the next game. We are not worried about two games away or three.

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

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

What we're seeing is a great deal of customization on country and industry levels. When Microsoft was developing its CRM, it made sure that it was built on a Web services architecture so that it can be easily adapted to specific local needs and requirements. We don't ship an out-of-the-box, property-management application, for instance, but those in real estate using the software can easily add apartment information without adding programming code.

Different shows have adapted different techniques to provide music. For the most part, there would be one or two people using a keyboard to digitally reproduce the sound of the orchestra.

Cyber-crooks, motivated by profit, have adapted well to the new environment -- they are now looking to silent infections that allow them to operate without much noise being made in the media. This means potential victims do not have their guard up and are more susceptible to theft of money and all types of information.

E.J. and Dustin have both come in and worked and adapted to the other players.

Everything can be adapted to get the look you want. Young girls may want to wear the tunic tops as a dress, but an older woman can wear it with a pair of pants.

The Suffrage Law would need to be adapted to the 1999 Constitution to provide for some defense of minority's representation.

It was a little tighter than I thought it would and what you're used to, but I think we adapted pretty well and played with some discipline.

Expectations for euro zone growth have been so depressed, it's not taking an awful lot to deliver an upside surprise. Markets have adapted to the very strong growth backdrop in the U.S.

Financial institutions and export and import enterprises have basically adapted to the flexibility of the exchange rate regime and show strong confidence in their future business.

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

You're talking about 22, 23 points a game with Jeremiah, and a lot of people thought we were going into last weekend (the game against Eastern Brown) not being able to win. But the kids adapted to what needed to be done, and kids stepped up and proved they can do whatever it takes to fill that hole.

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

Excess soil moisture can have negative effects on plant growth. However, grasses grown for seed in the Willamette Valley are known to be well adapted to wet soil conditions. In particular, annual and perennial ryegrass will tolerate temporary floods, and do much better than small grains on wet soils. Although short periods of flooding will not damage a stand, extended wet periods will cause stand loss.

Why? Because it is adapted from England through the proliferation of English coaches in influential positions in the last three decades and it is completely non-technical and tactically infantile.

I've adapted my footwork and my punches are a lot harder now. My first fight was like my amateur fights. I went in there with fast feet and fast hands but now I've slowed it down so I'm adapting to it and getting more power into my shots.

I'm very satisfied with the team's performance at our first spring tournament. We improved throughout the day and implemented our new serve-receive system very well. The team played with composure and consistency all day while competing against a wide variety of teams that each had different styles and strengths. The team adapted very well to this challenge, and the weekend proved that not only have our physical abilities improved, but so have our mental ones. Players were multi-tasking the strategic part of the game while also easily executing physical skill - a true sign of a veteran team.

I'm hoping he can step right in and do the job for us, but logic says he's probably going to need some time to get back in the groove again and get back in game situations. Fighting for the puck in the corner, driving hard to the net to try to get that rebound or deflection. Those kinds of things he's going to have to get adapted to.

Nokia has based its product strategy on a few product platforms that have been adapted to all digital standards, ... an intelligently conceived market segmentation plan that looked to consumer desire for inspiration, not simply engineering ability.

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

I walked up to the customer, and said, 'I think I know what she wants,' ... They bought the rug and he never said another word about me not selling. He was born in America, but was an Armenian man from a different era. He adapted and accepted the idea of a daughter in a non-secretarial position, and he complimented me to everyone.

The best part of having a movie adapted is knowing that more people will become familiar with my work.

Desert adapted plants, once they're established, they need very little supplemental water. Some of the other plants that we use in the desert, even if they're desert adapted, may not be native to this region, and so they may need additional water supplies.

I think our guys really adapted well in the third quarter. We knew we'd beaten Independence pretty badly the first game, and we knew that wouldn't be the case this time. Over the next two weeks, the team that usually adjusts will be the team that wins.

In order to continue strengthening our connection to young people in today's digital age, it became clear that we needed to adapt our organizational structure in the same way we have always adapted our programming to meet our audiences' ever-changing tastes.

Choosing a home that can be adapted to meet your future needs in the event of illness or reduced mobility should also be considered.

Charles really helped himself at the Senior Bowl, he was dominant against some of the top defensive line prospects. He's worked out well at every step of the way. He did well at the combine and at our pro day. We had to move him to tackle and he adapted quickly and made the most of it. He's going to have a nice career.

They were really aggressive and up on you. They were reaching a lot. They never adapted to the way the game was being called.

It's definitely a good thing, it's been around for a couple of years in vehicle tracking fleets and it's now being adapted more and more in aircraft.

Any music can be learned from and adapted from other artists, and whites have been widely influenced by black music, from Pat Boone singing Fats Domino to Elvis Presley singing 'Hound Dog', a Big Momma Thornton song he heard on the radio.

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

The Indian civilizations of Central and North America remained entirely without pack animals; and it took thousands of years for the corn that evolved in Mexico's climate to become modified into a corn adapted to the short growing season and seasonally changing day-length of North America.

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.'

The guys adapted well early on, when it did a little bit, and overall it was a good day for us.

The film is adapted from a novel, and in fact the novel's seven warriors are all male,

These are interesting stories out there and they've adapted well to all of the turmoil overseas,

Even when people emigrate to another country; they are still a piece of our history. Its interesting to see such a large number here and how they have adapted to life in another country over the years.

They either aren't adapted to the conditions here, they expend too much energy keeping themselves aloft for a long period, or they end up in a situation where there isn't enough food and they starve.

They may have adapted to using different types of habitats.

They got cut(-blocked) at first, but once they got adapted to that and got a feel for how Atlanta was blocking, they showed up and hustled around and did some good things.

There's a lot of competition now and a lot of the players have adapted his game to what they do, keeping the ball in play and chasing balls down.

We sing a variety of songs many people already know, songs like 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight,' 'Carolina in the Morning,' 'Get Happy' and many more, all written and adapted to our style of singing.

We monitor all of our burns in the park and have been working with Los Alamos National Lab to develop some projects cross-boundary, ... Fire has been here for thousands of years and there are many species ecologically dependent on fire. They have adapted to it and are dependent on it.

We had to change a lot of things with her. Once she learned and adapted to our system, it was like opening up and saying 'here you go.

This virus is not yet adapted to humans, it is not capable of human-to-human transmission and until that happens this will not be a pandemic strain.

They're carnivorous, they don't filter sea water at all but they've adapted the ability to capture prey floating by in the water column,

They're real hardy animals when it comes to weather. But they seem to not be real adapted to some of the diseases that have been introduced.

I came here two days ago and I haven't adapted to the surface yet,

I don't think they are taking away the hitting or the battles. They don't want anybody to hold and hook and use their sticks. It's something we adapted to during the season, and they're reinforcing it in the playoffs to make sure the game is still played the same way.

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

The laws are adapted to those cases which most frequently occur