Quotes About Shift

Change is ceaseless.

Change did not always lead to improvements, sometimes only to change.

Heir and a spare and change.

When something happens that eclipses the imaginable, it changes a person. It's like the difference between a raw egg and a scrambled egg. It's the same thing, but it's not the same at all.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Temporary becomes indefinite becomes permanent.

The year following Blue Gamma's closure involves many changes for Derek.

But there was a shift in behavior that, while falling short of a mass outbreak of criminality, was readily discernible by social scientists. Edgar Allan Poe had used the phrase "the imp of the perverse" to describe the temptation to do the wrong thing simply because you could, and for many people the imp had become more persuasive.

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

When you're a detective on the midnight shift, you don't have a specialty: you roll on any time they need a detective, whether it's big or small.

Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.

The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.

I changed in a lot of ways, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually.

I will say this, being an anchor is easier than being a reporter, because one of the things I'm able to do is essentially work a bit of a split shift.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

Randy has that moving-through-syrup feeling he gets when enacting some emotionally huge transition in his life.