Shift Quotes

649 quotes by 538 authors

Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the… — John Shelby Spong
In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention… — Alison Gopnik
Many countries - as well as cities, states and provinces - are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to… — David Suzuki
I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it… — Lapo Elkann
I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember… — P.J. O'Rourke
Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for… — Zac Goldsmith
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence… — Alice Oswald
A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving. — David Harsanyi
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. — Bill Gates
I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power. — John Lewis Gaddis
The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of… — Noreena Hertz
There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal,… — Bill McKibben
The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation… — Michael Specter
There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I… — Hamish Bowles
TIVO was a big shift in how people watched TV, but everyone understood the concept of TV. No one really understands the concept of, well… — Anne Wojcicki
Ebooks represent a shift from a culture of scarcity to a culture of abundance. In the past, publishing required a great deal of time and… — David Gerrold
The fracking revolution kicks off two additional mini-revolutions in energy: the accelerated shift to natural gas-powered vehicles, reducing the oil demand even further, and the… — Thomas P.M. Barnett
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so… — Paul Bloom
As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift… — Rob Wittman
Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all. — Timothy Noah

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