Shifting Quotes
301 quotes by 274 authors
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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
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Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.
— Martha Beck
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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. Anzaldúa
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
— John Naisbitt
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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
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... 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
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You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.
— Leontyne Price
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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
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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
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Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few
— Georg Kieninger
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Shifting Quotes
274 authors contributed a total of 301 Shifting Quotes, led by these top contributors: