Quotes About Shifting

There was a deceptive tangling of alleys that gave the impression of a map that shifted behind you, gargoyles tiptoeing away, stones like puzzle pieces rearranging themselves into new configurations while you weren't looking.

The night, a living presence, was in constant motion, shifting itself, sighing, breathing. She wondered if perhaps it, too, was trying to get warm.

The brain is a highly connected and interconnected organ, but the activation of those connections are constantly shifting. The great neurobiologist Sir Charles Sherrington, in his Gifford lectures titled Man on His Nature, described the brain as "an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns.

Have you ever seen anything more beautiful... than huge wandering clouds marbled in every subtle shade of gray bordered with light and hope shifting and swirling every moment in a slow dance with the winds?

Deep black, brown, and gray cloud banks were shifting across the sky like tumbleweed across the plains.

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.

No one understands the impacts of shifting fish stocks more than commercial and recreational fishermen in my district.

The DMK is like a chameleon. There is no doubt about that.

After you've sold this story, Mrs. Clark says, will you just look for a new villain? For the rest of your life, will you be looking for someone new to blame everything on?

Now is life very solid or very shifting? I am haunted by the two contradictions. This has gone on forever; goes down to the bottom of the world -- this moment I stand on. Also it is transitory, flying, diaphanous. I shall pass like a cloud on the waves. Perhaps it may be that though we change, one flying after another, so quick, so quick, yet we are somehow successive and continuous we human beings, and show the light through. But what is the light?

Mysterious opals contain the wonders of the skies — sparkling rainbows, fireworks and lightning, shifting and moving in their depths.

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.

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.

Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.

thunder. You could feel it under your feet. A sound without cognate and so without description. Something imponderable shifting out there in the dark. The earth itself contracting with the cold. It did not come again.

Indifferent to the shifting political agendas of Italy yet attracted to military engineering and strongmen, Leonardo had a chance to live out his military fantasies, which he did until he realized they could become nightmares.

making her frown. He quickly shifted back to mist

I'm one of those people who's always changing. There's nothing wrong with it but it means I am a hard person to hold onto, I guess.

But Krishna was a chameleon.

Only now did Pierre understand the full force of human vitality and the saving power of the shifting of attention that has been put in man, similar in steam engines, which releases the extra steam as soon as the pressure exceeds a certain norm.

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.

Since nothing is less stable among men than those external relationships which chance brings about more often than wisdom, and which are called weakness or power, wealth or poverty, human establishments appear at first glance to be based on piles of shifting sand.

Le sabbie mobili si stavano muovendo sotto di lui.

He never lives in a single reality, but in a shifting shadow-mesh of diplomatic possibilities.