Quotes About Shift

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

Before we understood that houses shift just over time because the ground is moving, the creaks in a house were assumed to be apparitions, or ghosts. Before we understood that we live on a planet, and there are others, the only answers to where we came from had to be something supernatural.

I ate supper after Dad saw the evening shift down the shaft, and I went to sleep to the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of an arc welder at the little tipple machine shop during the hoot-owl shift.

I suppose the first big shift in my life was when, at the age of 8, my father left my mother, leaving her alone with two daughters to bring up. That taught me the importance of women being financially independent. You never know what might happen.

I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.

Rap is supposed to change. It's supposed to do new things.

We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.

The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.

The hold on power always ends. While death will surely break it, someone else usually grabs it before then.

Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the surface and are rather invisible.

The difference between being in the closet and out of the closet as a gay man is such a huge shift. I feel so connected still to that 22-year-old, but the idea that I was not open with that part of my life - which I am now so open about - is sort of surreal.

It is August. My life is going to change. I feel it.

Things change, he says. I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.

Things change. I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.

Things change, he says. I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.

Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

Thick cunning played on her face, had no fun there and went somewhere else.

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.

Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?

He ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual and subtle, some dramatic and conflict-ridden--which is to say that revolution doesn't necessarily look like revolution.

And things continue to change in interesting and sometimes even auspicious ways.

seized power nowhere, but nonetheless changed everything.

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay and then of this crisis when emergence from what came before must be total and abrupt.