Quotes About Shift

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.

It's never the changes we want that change everything.

Then, suddenly, as if the floor of time had slipped away...

Karen Joy Fowler

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

In 1642 the modern world was born.

He wondered what a visitor from the past would make of it. It used to be the poor who were thin and the rich who were fat, now it seemed to be the other way round.

First things were good, last things not so much so.

Everything changes and nothing remains still. PLATO, Cratylus

I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

Times don't change. Men do.

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

When men change, maybe Bond will change.

Isn't it odd how the little things can change a man's entire life?

Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

Right now I don't call it the menopause, I call it men-on-pause.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

Money is always there but the pockets change.