Shifts Quotes

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. — Isaac Watts

This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive. — Carly Fiorina

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

On Internet time: sudden shifts in technologies and markets, races for market share driven — Anonymous

You don't have problems, only a capacity for feeling anxious about them, which shifts and jostles but doesn't change. — Martin Amis

We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges; we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

Reality shifts occur when we are in a dreamy state of energized awareness in which we are clear about what we prefer — Cynthia Sue Larson

How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing. — Joyce Rachelle

The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action. — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

We love fog because
it shifts old anomalies into the elements
surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing — Eavan Boland

woman marries, falls out of love with her husband after a time, and then if a male child arrives, shifts her passion from father to son. Something — William McBrien

We always see ourselves as constant, and others as less so, no matter what policy shifts we ourselves may have been guilty of. — William T. Vollmann

If the Republican Party shifts to the right, how will we know? — Randy Cohen

The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands of time. — Dava Sobel

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface. — Al Gore

It made no sense naturewise - owls and songbirds work different shifts, and even if they didn't they would still never be friends. — David Sedaris

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Once we can see the major shifts from liking to disliking, from opened to close, we will be able to acknowledge them before they gain momentum. — Stephen Levine

Shift your attention, and your emotion shifts. Shift your emotion, and your attention shifts. — Frederick Dodson

Ha!" she exclaims as the music shifts. "Wait until tonight." "Marlee! — Kiera Cass

All love shifts and changes ... — Julie Andrews

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it. — Larry King

If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts. — Eckhart Tolle

Everything shifts as you move, and different things come into focus at different points of your life, and you try to articulate that. — Chris Steele-Perkins

As a person's end draws near, there comes a moment when responsibility shifts to someone else to decide what to do. — Atul Gawande

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. — George Eliot

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood. — David Abram

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors. — Fareed Zakaria

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. — Philip K. Dick

she constantly shifts back and forth between her "literate" narrator's voice and a highly idiomatic black voice — Zora Neale Hurston

The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet. — Lynne McTaggart

An enlightened person is someone who shifts from one plateau of knowledge to another. — Frederick Lenz

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music. — Steven Curtis Chapman

Social media is just useless garbage until one random, serendipitous, meaningful connection happens and suddenly the whole world shifts. — Dan Blank

Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks. — George Vecsey

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet. — Michelle Richmond

God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. — Seamus Heaney

In my experience of ward nursing, two shifts are more conducive to sleep than three." "But — Emma Donoghue

My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear. — David Allee

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light. — Thomas Jefferson

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic — J.G. Ballard

Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift. — Nicholas Negroponte

So that is new in terms of where I've seen the shifts. Otherwise, it's all about taste and taste just keeps going round and round and round. — Eric Fellner

Culture shifts, but the Word of God remains. — Tremper Longman III

People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting. — Kat Lehmann

I think, then i pick, and then i stick. and nothing shifts me more from my view. no bad races, no bad sessions, no bad moods. — Chrissie Wellington

It's often the ideas that sound most absurd and counterintuitive at first that later cause fundamental shifts in the way we see the world. — Orson Scott Card

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. — Julie Andrews Edwards

He smiles. Shifts forward.
'You're fascinating," he whispers.
I nearly choke on my saliva. — Katy Evans

I live in California, the worst place in the world for fat people. There are three of us. They have us on eight-hour shifts, so it works out. — Louie Anderson

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life. — Louis De Bernieres

A few painful shifts and I was comfortable, in a not-going-to-die-right-now-but-maybe-later sort of way. — Kiersten White

Healing is a choice. It's not an easy one because it takes work to turn around your habits. But keep making the choice and shifts will happen. — Yehuda Berg

Many of the Cape employees work 16 to 18 hour shifts a day. The Cape area earns the title of number one in divorces for the whole country. — Martha Lemasters

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts. — Jane Fonda

To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them. — Maajid Nawaz

People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor
it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people. — Anthony Doerr

when your consciousness or mental attitude shifts, remarkable things begin to happen. That shift is the ultimate business tool and life tool. — Guy Spier

Like many parents in middle age, he's quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective. — Kathleen Rooney

It is impossible to need excuses when the focus of your life shifts from 'What's in it for me?' to 'How can I serve?' — Wayne Dyer

Raffe is warm and strong and he feels like home. Our faces inch closer as the swarm shifts. For a moment, I can feel his breath feathering my cheek. — Susan Ee

Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure. — Terry Pratchett

Joinville's perspective shifts vertically, depending on whether he has fallen from his horse or just remounted. — Umberto Eco

The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead. — Anonymous

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere. — Edward R. Murrow

Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage. — Caroline Myss

It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities. — Michael Almereyda

I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break. — Joyce Rachelle

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hold onto the string, love, until the current shifts and we can be together again. — Amy A. Bartol

You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts. — Frederick Lenz

The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium. — Jason Calacanis

In the moment you ask, and believe and know you already have it in the unseen, the entire Universe shifts to bring it into the seen. — Rhonda Byrne

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were. — Murray Kempton

Life shifts, sometimes shakes like an earthquake. — Kate Angell

She was like some kind of Energizer Bunny nonstop bitch machine ... She needed three more husbands, so we could all take shifts listening to her. — Victor Gischler

It's common for cultural shifts to start with young, urban adopters before going mainstream. — Lynn Jurich

For behold your body -
A painted puppet, a toy,
Jointed, sick and full of false
imaginings,
A shadow that shifts and fade. — Gautama Buddha

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture. — Terry Eagleton

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives. — Jean-Marie Lehn

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. — William Hazlitt

Reading if a man has a crush on you can be to your advantage. If you know a guy likes you, the power shifts in your favor giving you more confidence. — Georgios Christodoulou

Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again. — John Gay

The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual. — Carlos Wallace

Miracles transcend the body. They are sudden shifts into invisibility, away from the bodily level. That is why they heal. T-1.I.18. — Foundation For Inner Peace

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again. — Rosie O'Donnell

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement. — Henry Jenkins

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning. — Bruce Nauman

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing. — Mark Steyn

Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. — Joyce Carol Oates

The more attention we pay to the idea that reality shifts, the more we see our reality shift — Cynthia Sue Larson

Hawk, For the shoes. You need to find a replacement for my shifts. Gwen — Kristen Ashley

As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical. — Kara Swisher

My kids are always awake. It's they're taking shifts. 'Alright, I'll annoy 'em from midnight to . Who wants to ?' — Jim Gaffigan

When the wind shifts against the sun, trust it not, for back it will run. — Karen White

If you follow the enemy's shifts and changes, you can always find a way to win. — Sun Tzu

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design. — Jacob Appelbaum

As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company. — Sam Altman