Shifting Quotes
301 quotes by 265 authors
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We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity…
— Cate Blanchett
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Studios and networks who ignore either shift — whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement — will be…
— Kevin Spacey
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I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.
— Matthew Rhys
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Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals…
— Arianna Huffington
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The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on…
— Joseph Campbell
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Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron…
— Celia Rees
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TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it’s just a bigger screen.
— Hari Sreenivasan
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Heaven was not so far away in the eyes of these people (the Maya), who believed that individual, civic and social truths could be revealed…
— Unknown Author
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You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
— Elaine Scarry
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Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting…
— Ilka Chase
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed…
— Edna Ferber
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The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes…
— William James
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I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the ï¬erce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity,…
— Joy Harjo
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Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy,
— Jim Jarmusch
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Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
— Jeff Goodell
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Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their…
— Saul Alinsky
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Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
— Jim Costa
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Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place…
— Theodor Herzl
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Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whole value is…
— Warren Buffett
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