Quotes About Shift

Some hours ago we had discovered a giant. Now we had discovered a man. The giant was the man, but being a man he could no longer be a giant. The man had undermined the giant.

You have dizzying change where there's no progress.

Some lights cast more than one shadow. Stand before nightfall and you'll see for yourself. The flames shift and dance, never still. The shadows grow tall and short, and every man casts a dozen. Some are fainter than others, that's all. Well, men cast shadows across the future, as well. One shadow or many." - Stannis

Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.

It is as if I were a stranger here. Nothing has changed, and yet everything has changed - Theon Greyjoy

Some lights cast more than one shadow. Stand before the nightfire and you'll see for yourself. The flames shift and dance, never still. The shadows grow tall and short, and every man casts a dozen. Some are fainter than others, that's all. Well, men cast their shadows across the future as well. One shadow or many.

One war ends, another begins.

Up from the South they came in increasing droves,

revolution was taking place in Negro society.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations

The age of the book is almost gone.

American power made it possible for Europeans to believe that power was no longer important." -Robert Kagan

Vivir es pasar de un espacio a otro sin golpearse

In order to experience peace instead of conflict, it is necessary to shift our perception.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Revolutions are not made; they come.

Autumn to winter, winter into spring. Spring, into summer, summer into fall, - So rolls the changing year, and so we change; -Motion so swift, we know not that we move.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Think of that — what little things change the world's history...