Shifted Quotes

148 quotes by 128 authors

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. If the… — Sun Tzu
Peace comes not because your prayer has been answered exactly as you prayed it, but because you shifted your focus and the burden of responsibility… — Christopher Parkening
Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers… — Kieren Perkins
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder. — George Bernard Shaw
Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was… — Ambrose Bierce
He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each. — Douglas Adams
The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one… — Paul Davies
The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any more than the… — Tycho Brahe
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view. — Richard Attenborough
We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis… — David Shields
I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing evidence that something… — Michael Hanlon
Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around,… — Ann Brashares
Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of a top-secret and… — Christopher McDougall
It shifted attention away from that and Ive never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway. — Steffi Graf
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals… — Calvin Coolidge
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I… — Robert Musil
Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes them.… — Colum McCann
All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is — James Agee

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