Shifted Quotes
148 quotes by 128 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
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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
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He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.
— Douglas Adams
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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
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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
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I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
— Richard Attenborough
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It shifted attention away from that and Ive never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.
— Steffi Graf
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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
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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
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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
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All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is
— James Agee
Who Wrote These Shifted Quotes
128 authors contributed a total of 148 Shifted Quotes, led by these top contributors: