Quotes About Shift

I used to love villas when the kids were small but now I like hotels.

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

I know that in Bollywood, there is this constant talk on which actor's film is minting how much money, but we are living in a time where the focus is shifting from 'actor's responsibility' to the result of a great team work. I believe filmmaking is about that.

It's crazy how much time can change things.

There are very few events that we all would point to as moments that changed the course of human history.

When I saw 'The Office' I thought, 'That's it for our type of humour. This has changed comedy for ever.' I loved it.

I believe that hundreds of years from now, history will be divided into pre-1960s and post-1960s.

My feelings for her were veering too quickly from bitter to sweet.

And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine.

Copernicus not only moved the Earth but also set in motion the minds of men

Maybe it's simpler than that: If the biggest jerks form a club, everything starts to fall apart when one of them isn't quite so jerky anymore.

Soon he would move on.

from conditions that are calculated to have been warmer and wetter than today's 13,000 years ago,70 to conditions that were colder and drier than those at the last glacial maximum just a few hundred years later.

She used to think that he was so stocky, and bull-like, but now he felt like a laundry bag filled with old coat hangers.

into another identity. And I

Doppler effect.

People talk about starting over,' he said. 'But you can't start over. All you can do is change direction.

a little less and a little more every day

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.

The problem started before World War I. The gold standard was working fairly well. But it broke down because of the war and what happened in the 1920s. And then the U.S. started to become so dominant in the world, with the dollar becoming the central currency after the 1930s, the whole world economy shifted.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.