Shifting Quotes

301 quotes by 274 authors

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen… — Martha Beck
Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is. — Martha Beck
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes,… — Sun Tzu
Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for… — Gunter Grass
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is… — John Dewey
There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream… — Gelett Burgess
In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge our obligations to… — Marion G. Romney
We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society. — John Naisbitt
The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise… — R. S. Thomas
... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in… — Albert Einstein
You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you. — Leontyne Price
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a… — E. M. Forster
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… — James A. Baldwin
Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few — Georg Kieninger
Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent… — Diane Ackerman
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as… — William Hazlitt
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… — Raymond Franz
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… — Stephen Batchelor

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