Quotes About Shifting

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

This is a very fickle and faithless generation.

Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people

This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

Did they always pass out after shifting back to human? It didn't seem very efficient. Or had he been hurt? Leaning to the side, she inspected the bronzed perfection spread over the quilt. her mouth went dry as she tried to concentrate on searching him for injuries. She'd never seen a man so magnificently...proportioned. A broad, chiseled chest. Powerful shoulders. Washboard abs. Long, muscular legs. And a huge... Yeah. Magnificently proportioned.

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.

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

it seeks to 'fix' our understanding, but at the same time it reveals how any such fixity, and such desire for stability and certainty, is constructed on shifting sands.

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

Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again.

I am the being that deflects change, for change is boring and haunted, the same gestures in shifting colors. You know all the colors.

There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

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.

Shades of gray, I thought, knowing I was slipping into places I had vowed I'd never go.

with low shifting gray clouds dropping black brooms of rain

Were companies units or loose, ever-shifting alliances of individuals? Still didn't know.

Was it a tiny shifting spiral of light?

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

I predict you're going to see more and more of this shifting of al Qaeda fighters going over to ISIS because they are the game in town.

Whatever the script demands, I do.

It differs from game to game, how aggressive I should be.

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

For home had a way of shifting, of changing shape and temperature. Home was homeless. It could exist anywhere, because its only substance was familiarity. If it was broken by long journeys or tornadoes it emerged again, reinvented itself with new decor, new idiosyncrasies of morning, noon and dusk, and old routines.

It never occurred to him to wonder how there could be so many people, so many shifting groups that he only saw once in so small a village. Not matter how many such scenes played out, he didn't wonder -- for Henry had become a very particular sort of person. He had been groomed to be a person who did not ask questions. He had not been told to be that way, but all the same he had been led to it, and now that he was there, he felt a great comfort.