Shifting Quotes

301 Shifting quotes by 265 unique authors

I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and… — Marisha Pessl
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you… — Frank Herbert
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around… — Mark Z. Danielewski
She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with… — C.S. Lewis
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from… — Albert Einstein
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of… — Joan Didion
I sat on the bench outside of class today and talked to Jon. I read to him from my journal, it was the part about… — Sabrina Ward Harrison
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I… — Carl Jung
Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power. — Peter McWilliams
Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes.… — Barbara Kingsolver
There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully… — Sarah Dessen
sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is… — Khaled Hosseini
With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead.… — Sylvia Plath
For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object… — Roland Barthes
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. — Sharon Salzberg
They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden… — Stephen King
What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon… — Naomi Klein
First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and… — Thomas Merton
The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance… — Mark Doty
Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both… — Lauren Willig
And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or… — Ahdaf Soueif
You're not built for riding, either," Horace added. "I'd say more saddle sore than homesick." Svenal sighed ruefully, shifting his buttocks for the twentieth time… — John Flanagan
The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given… — Michael Ondaatje
He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something… — Michael Cunningham
Pierce jerked his hand from Trent and pushed himself straight. “Kalamack Industries,” he said, expression twisted as he wiped his hand on his pants. “I… — Kim Harrison

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