Shifting famous quotes

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

#Thinking #Shifting #Comedy

There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.
-- Alan Bold

#Leaving #Edinburgh #Shifting

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

#Powerful #Important #Shifting

I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.
-- Audre Lorde

#Change #Curves #Shifting

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
-- Christina Stead

#Money #Class #Shifting

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

#Believe #Innovation #Shifting

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

#Time #Mind #Shifting

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

#Wise #World #Shifting

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

#God #Would Be #Shifting

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

#Animal #Shifting #Paradigm

Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few
-- Georg Kieninger

#Chess #Woods #Shifting

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Sound #Actors #Shifting

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

#Reality #World #Shifting

TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it’s just a bigger screen.
-- Hari Sreenivasan

#Shifting #Just Being #Tvs

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

#Reality #Cinema #Shifting

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

#Real #Writing #Shifting

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.
-- James A. Baldwin

#Real #Shifting

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
-- James Hansen

#Ecosystems #Climate #Shifting

The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.
-- James Laver

#Fashion #Shifting #Catching

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

#Hair #Rocks #Shifting

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
-- Jeff Goodell

#Fighting #Shifting #Climate

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

#Shifting #Climate #Suggestions

We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?
-- Jesse Schell

#Games #Shifting #Economy

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy,
-- Jim Jarmusch

#Molecules #Spinning #Shifting

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
-- John Naisbitt

#Society #Shifting #Entrepreneurial

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

#Technological Advancement #Shifting #Sand

We're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on Instagram.
-- Kevin Systrom

#People #Shifting #Instagram

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

#Fun #Way #Shifting

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

#Shifting #Doe #Drs

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
-- Livy

#Clever #Men #Shifting

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

#Shifting #Monsters #Looks

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

#Doors #Balance #Shifting

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

#Dark #Rooms #Shifting

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.
-- Martha Beck

#Angel #Shifting #Metaphysical

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

#Shifting #Easy #Planes

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

#Rome #Sublime #Shifting

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.
-- Pema Chodron

#Energy #Shifting

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.
-- Peter Drucker

#Past #Entrepreneur #Shifting

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

#Media #Way #Shifting

Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.
-- Ray Mears

#Fire #Woods #Shifting

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

#Shifting #Authority #Accepting

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

#Disappointment #World #Shifting

Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.
-- Saul Berman

#Shifting #Produce #Consuming

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

#Our World #Shifting #Energy

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

#Japan #Pay #Shifting

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

#Empathy #Demand #Shifting

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

#Hurt #Moving #Shifting

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

#Done #Shifting #Mazes

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.
-- Timothy Keller

#Life Changing #Shifting #Blame

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.
-- Veronica Roth

#Shifting

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

#Fighting #Shifting #Accepted

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

#Brain #Wire #Shifting

You're always kind of shifting and changing and it's a really exciting process.
-- Chuck Ragan

#Shifting #Kind #Process

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

#Taken #Different #Shifting

Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet.
-- Thomas Crum

#Dance #Dancing #Shifting

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.
-- Tinashe

#Creative #Inspire #Shifting

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

#Variation #Shifting #Impossible

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

#Significant Change #Community #Shifting

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

#Listening #World #Shifting

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

#Alternatives #Variables #Shifting