Quotes about Shifting

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. Votes: 6

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. Votes: 6

Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources. Votes: 6

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. Votes: 6

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. Votes: 6

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds. Votes: 5

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility? Votes: 5

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life. Votes: 4

Shifting in the hospital bed had blown her closet door wide open. Votes: 4

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. Votes: 4

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 as the law catches up. Votes: 4

Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone. Votes: 4

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 placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand. Votes: 4

You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand. Votes: 4

Let's be the people who look at the hurting until we hurt with them. No hurrying past, turning away, or shifting of eyes. No pretending or glossing over. Let's look at the face until we see the person. Votes: 4

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight. Votes: 4

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 is it just a consolation ? a shifting of responsibility? and if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ? Votes: 4

Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again. Votes: 4

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 Gibraltar - steadfast and immovable; men without it are like the shifting sands on the Sahara Desert - tossed to and fro by every variant wind of life. Votes: 4

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 of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down. Votes: 4

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We are just a pixel in the canvas of the universe. Shifting colours, sometimes green, sometimes blue, sometimes red, and sometimes black, to fit in this grandness. Votes: 3

Remote Viewing is Space Shifting without leaving your chair. It is a convenient shortcut to a miracle, therefore, relatively high numbers of humans were able to achieve it. Votes: 3

The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible. Votes: 3

Shifting the frame only slightly, the choice of a theory from among the range of always ideologically founded theories is itself necessarily ideologically motivated. Positioning is unavoidable; positioning is the result of choice from among a range of possibilities; that choice is socially meaningful - it is ideological. Votes: 3

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species. Votes: 2

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government. Votes: 2

We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers? Votes: 2

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses. Votes: 2

The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again. Votes: 2

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you. Votes: 2

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change. Votes: 2

Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change. Votes: 2

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting. Votes: 2

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people's lives. Votes: 2

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 wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters. Votes: 2

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures. Votes: 2

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that. Votes: 2

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor. Votes: 2

Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work. Votes: 2

If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia. Votes: 2

Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would say a salutary way - and Reagan was most important in shifting the grand dynamic thrust of the American historical process by ending that. Votes: 2

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. Votes: 2

Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve. Votes: 2

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends. Votes: 1

I think television is always changing. It's always shifting. Votes: 1

No place is the same because everything is shifting always. Votes: 1

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides. Votes: 0

My moods are continuously shifting like the weather. Votes: 0

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was. Votes: 0

Fame is a fickle food - Upon a shifting plate Votes: 0

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching. Votes: 0

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society. Votes: 0

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation. Votes: 0

Change is continuous and the aggregate of the self is constantly shifting. Votes: 0

Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few Votes: 0

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon. Votes: 0

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present Votes: 0

You're always kind of shifting and changing and it's a really exciting process. Votes: 0

There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always. Votes: 0

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy, Votes: 0

I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast. Votes: 0

The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas. Votes: 0

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing. Votes: 0

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania. Votes: 0

What do I want from a book? Something protean, something always on-the-move-or-make - shape-shifting, semantically-and-syntactically-shifting. Votes: 0

On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away. Votes: 0

I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet. Votes: 0

TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it's just a bigger screen. Votes: 0

Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works. Votes: 0

Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind Votes: 0

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power. Votes: 0

We're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on Instagram. Votes: 0

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors. Votes: 0

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes. Votes: 0

I signed up with Kundalini yoga teacher training, which has been shifting me in some really beautiful ways. Votes: 0

Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours. Votes: 0

Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it. Votes: 0

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass. Votes: 0

Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it. Votes: 0

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. Votes: 0

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market. Votes: 0

It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness. Votes: 0

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else. Votes: 0

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does. Votes: 0

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it. Votes: 0

When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation. Votes: 0

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered. Votes: 0

Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet. Votes: 0

Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception. Votes: 0

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval. Votes: 0

The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian. Votes: 0

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home. Votes: 0

Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world. Votes: 0

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul. Votes: 0

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard. I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward. Votes: 0

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. Votes: 0

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things. Votes: 0

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor. Votes: 0

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past. Votes: 0

Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes. Votes: 0

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away. Votes: 0

Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been written. Votes: 0

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do. Votes: 0

The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up. Votes: 0

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is. Votes: 0

I thought it was real. But by morning, all I had left were fragmented pieces, shifting images with no beginning or end. Votes: 0

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons--new and uncertain nations--new pressures of population and deprivation. Votes: 0

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future. Votes: 0

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation. Votes: 0

We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run? Votes: 0

[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again. Votes: 0

It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers. Votes: 0

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth. Votes: 0

The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in. Votes: 0

Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality? Votes: 0

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry. Votes: 0

When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more expansive view. Votes: 0

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa. Votes: 0

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young. Votes: 0

Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul. Votes: 0

When documents were analog, they were protected by government laws against unreasonable search and seizure. When they live in the cloud... the ground is shifting. Votes: 0

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please. Votes: 0

You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen. Votes: 0

Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you. Votes: 0

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century. Votes: 0

If we forget our past, then we lose direction. We become lost on a changing sea, easy prey for the shifting currents of the moment. Votes: 0

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting. Votes: 0

We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus Votes: 0

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives. Votes: 0

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 life. Votes: 0

Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting. Votes: 0

America needs a sensible, sustainable Iran policy that can meet U.S. security and economic interests, command international support and withstand the shifting Middle Eastern sands. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment. Votes: 0

I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions. Votes: 0

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are. Votes: 0

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words. Votes: 0

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 to place. Votes: 0

I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church. Votes: 0

Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element. Votes: 0

Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it. Votes: 0

Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element. Votes: 0

For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure. Votes: 0

There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise, Votes: 0

CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world. Votes: 0

Veganism must be the baseline if we are to have any hope of shifting the paradigm away from animals as things and toward animals as nonhuman persons. Votes: 0

It's such a huge playing field, especially with the wind and shifting tides and only three women out. It's almost like you are fending for yourself out there. Votes: 0

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands. Votes: 0

I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word. Votes: 0

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income. Votes: 0

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 of the burden. Votes: 0

My head is full of shifting patterns and polyrhythmic stuff; but I want to use all acoustic instruments and create this kind of tapestry of interlocking lulling parts. Votes: 0

I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now. Votes: 0

Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere. Votes: 0

Studios and networks who ignore either shift — whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement — will be left behind, Votes: 0

I've always been really opinionated, and mixed with being really open hearted, open to people shifting what I think all the time, but I like to speak with conviction. Votes: 0

By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance. Votes: 0

We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that. Votes: 0

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience. Votes: 0

Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of energy in different parts of your body. Votes: 0

Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps. Votes: 0

As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter. Votes: 0

Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor. Votes: 0

Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of energy in different parts of your body. Votes: 0

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 sympathies get really interesting. Votes: 0

Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape. Votes: 0

I believe therapy can be done more rapidly. I'm into your finding the source of what's making you think and feel the way you do and shifting it quickly. Votes: 0

Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns. Votes: 0

White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky. Votes: 0

There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business. Votes: 0

He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to. Votes: 0

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting. Votes: 0

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation. Votes: 0

Individually and collectively, we are shifting from a position of fear into surrender and trust of the intuitive. The power of the feminine energy is on the rise in our world. Votes: 0

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe. Votes: 0

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime? Votes: 0

The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not enough" to the positive frame of aligning with Nature. Votes: 0

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind. Votes: 0

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist. Votes: 0

Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude. Votes: 0

The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting. Votes: 0

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time. Votes: 0

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 the burden upon the other Allied Powers. Votes: 0

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 a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor. Votes: 0

Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while. Votes: 0

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is. Votes: 0

The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet. Votes: 0

There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm." Votes: 0

Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance. Votes: 0

Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books. Votes: 0

It is through many lifetimes of shifting the aggregate of the self that one finally reaches a point of maximum velocity whereby one can snap off the circle completely and move into freedom. Votes: 0

One major way to avoid shifting blames unto other people is to accept and agree that the efforts that turn the loads of your self- improvement have to turn on your own pivot. Votes: 0

Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things. Votes: 0

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 of balance between individual freedom and general order. Votes: 0

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 be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine? Votes: 0

When you think about it, caring for patients is 99 percent information and 1 percent intervention, so it's clear that with or without genomics, the paradigm is shifting. Bioinformatics brings a cutting edge capacity to healthcare. Votes: 0

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. Votes: 0

A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn't mean they are utterly insincere. Votes: 0

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 them is always shifting and changing over the years. Votes: 0

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them. Votes: 0

There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic. Votes: 0

Eternity hums with every beating heart, with every up-lifted voice, with the crash of waves, the whirl of wind across the shifting dunes, the cry of sea birds, and the trumpets of heavenly angels. Votes: 0

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise. Votes: 0

real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage. Votes: 0

I changed because of you. I could feel you, worming your way into my heart and soul, shifting things. You've no idea how aggravating it is to have to adapt to new feelings and thoughts. Votes: 0

We have great respect for Canada and Britain as well, and if they start shifting policies with regards to marijuana, it simply increases the rumblings in this country that we ought to re-examine our policy. Votes: 0

Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up. Racially mixed up, people moving from place to place, everything shifting. Votes: 0

Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls. Votes: 0

With us, when you speak of ‘the river,' though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi. Votes: 0

Most people don't get to laugh, be free, dance, be surrounded by this energy. It's important to remind people to take that home. I want the world to start shifting [to] a more positive energy. Votes: 0

The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of modern capitalism, becoming ever more egalitarian in both appearance and reality. Votes: 0