Shifting Quotes

301 quotes by 265 authors

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
Studios and networks who ignore either shift â€” whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement â€” will be… — Kevin Spacey
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
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
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
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
TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; itâ€™s just a bigger screen. — Hari Sreenivasan
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
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
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things. — Elaine Scarry
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
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
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
I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the ï¬erce magic emerging here. I am witness to ï¬‚exible eternity,… — Joy Harjo
Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy, — Jim Jarmusch
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change. — Jeff Goodell
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
Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government. — Jim Costa
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
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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