Shifting quotes
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
-- Agnes Repplier -
There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.
-- Alan Bold -
The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read.
-- Aminatta Forna -
I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.
-- Audre Lorde -
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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
-- Christina Stead -
We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.
-- Craig Mundie -
Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
-- Francesco Guicciardini -
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You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.
-- Francis Schaeffer -
Veganism must be the baseline if we are to have any hope of shifting the paradigm away from animals as things and toward animals as nonhuman persons.
-- Gary L. Francione -
Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few
-- Georg Kieninger -
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
-- Gloria Swanson -
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Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?
-- Hans Christian von Baeyer -
TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it’s just a bigger screen.
-- Hari Sreenivasan -
All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
-- Ira Sachs -
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shifting and changing and searching. The world has many labels for him, of which the most treacherous is the label of Success.
-- James A. Baldwin -
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A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.
-- James A. Baldwin -
As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
-- James Hansen -
The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.
-- James Laver -
Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere.
-- James Wolcott -
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Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
-- Jeff Goodell -
I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?
-- Jesse Schell -
Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy,
-- Jim Jarmusch -
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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
-- John Naisbitt -
Studios and networks who ignore either shift — whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement — will be left behind,
-- Kevin Spacey -
We're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on Instagram.
-- Kevin Systrom -
There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise,
-- Lewis Hamilton -
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The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,†Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?
-- Libba Bray -
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
-- Livy -
look, getting bitten doesn't make you into a monster. It just makes you a wolf. You are what you are. When you're a wolf, or when you're shifting, you don't have human inhibitions, so if you're naturally angry or violent, you get worse.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
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For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.
-- Mark Z. Danielewski -
Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.
-- Martha Beck -
I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.
-- Matthew Rhys -
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
-- Paolo Sorrentino -
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Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.
-- Pema Chodron -
Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.
-- Peter Drucker -
I admire David De Gea. I cannot remember anyone coming into Manchester United and being criticised the way he was. He was the subject of every debate in the media. You haven’t seen De Gea defend himself in the media or shifting the blame elsewhere. He just gets on with it.
-- Peter Schmeichel -
Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.
-- Ray Mears -
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I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.
-- Raymond Franz -
There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.
-- Sarah Dessen -
Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.
-- Saul Berman -
Individually and collectively, we are shifting from a position of fear into surrender and trust of the intuitive. The power of the feminine energy is on the rise in our world.
-- Shakti Gawain -
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There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.
-- Shigeru Yoshida -
Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.
-- Stephen Batchelor -
Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.
-- Suzanne Brockmann -
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.
-- Terry Brooks -
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Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.
-- Timothy Keller -
That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.
-- Veronica Roth -
Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.
-- will.i.am -
You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
-- Beau Willimon -
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You're always kind of shifting and changing and it's a really exciting process.
-- Chuck Ragan -
The thing about animation is that it's a constantly changing process. They talk in terms of sequences - so there's like thirty different sequences in a movie and at anytime those were shifting or being taken out or being replaced.
-- Jonathan M. Goldstein -
Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet.
-- Thomas Crum -
If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.
-- Tinashe -
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It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made.
-- Masaaki Imai -
When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.
-- Owen Barfield -
In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being created, just like the world around us, never predictable, always shifting and intertwining, reflecting and echoing itself.
-- Pattiann Rogers -
Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.
-- Richard A. Falk -
