Shifting Quotes

301 Shifting quotes by 265 unique authors

The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder… — Morris Kline
I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news,… — Michael Connelly
It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of… — Richard Hell
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader… — Sara Zarr
Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting… — Philip Rieff
Well, I don't care for Paul Ryan's sound or his lyrics. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue… — Tom Morello
As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species. — James Hansen
There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting… — Shigeru Yoshida
What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be… — John W. Thompson
We are at the very point in time when a 400-year old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting… — Dee Hock
Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world. — Frederick Lenz
The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones… — Michael Oppenheimer
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in… — William James
Art pulls a community together... Art makes you feel differently. That's what artists are doing all the time, shifting and changing the way you see… — Lister Sinclair
And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the… — Theodore Roosevelt
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too… — William Osler
And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate… — Rachel Carson
We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run? — Bayard Taylor
I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the… — Burton Silverman
It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses.… — Dennis Lindley
When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like the Rock of… — Tad R. Callister
When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is… — Kristin Armstrong
Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends. — Timothy Keller
Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to… — Felix Frankfurter
White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home. — Ron Fournier

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265 authors contributed a total of 301 Shifting Quotes, led by these top contributors: