Quotes and Sayings About Shifting
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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