Shifting Sand Quotes:

... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.26, Open Road Media

topic: Educational, Hands, Order, Statues, Shifting Sand

Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

topic: Rain, Blow, Wind, Shifting Sand

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

- E. L. Doctorow

topic: Time, Mind, Shifting, Shifting Sand

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Opinion, Impossible, Sand, Popular Opinion, Shifting Sand

When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like the Rock of Gibraltar - steadfast and immovable; men without it are like the shifting sands on the Sahara Desert - tossed to and fro by every variant wind of life.

- Tad R. Callister

topic: Integrity, Men, Rocks, Sahara, Scaffolding

The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.

- Colonel Sanders

topic: Years, Long, Foundation, Swept Away, Easy Way

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

- Mark Strong

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Psychological Thrillers, Shifting Sand

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

- Lee Strobel

source: Source: www.patheos.com

topic: Shifting, Moral, Sand, Moral Relativism, Shifting Sand

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

- Ella Leya

topic: Profound, Vices, Desert, Dissonance, Sand Dunes

It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.

- Dennis Lindley

source: "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 2 "Stylistic Questions", p. 19), 2006.

topic: Talking, Law, Doe, Shifting Sand

What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist.

- Michio Kaku

topic: Past, Machines, Way, Time Machine, Blackboard

Without core convictions to help us navigate, we stand uneasily on shifting sand, and we lack the solid footing with which to stage a life of principle and character. Today is a call to biblical conviction... What is needed today is a battalion of believers who follow Christ and stand for Him and His truth.

- Dennis Rainey

topic: Character, Biblical, Principles, Shifting Sand

No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.

- Cal Thomas

topic: Country, Thinking, Diversity, Shifting Sand

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

topic: Technological Advancement, Shifting, Sand, Shifting Sand

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

topic: God, Would Be, Shifting, Lost Confidence, Shifting Sand

I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?... fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror

- David Mitchell

topic: Mean, Mirrors, Pyramids, Genomics, Shifting Sand