Quotes About Shift

We can't change the world, but we can change the subject

We can't change the country. Let us change the subject.

Glaciers and volcanoes both have the potential to transform landscapes, but one does so by burying what lies beneath, where the other spews forth new terrain.

The Civil War started out as one kind of conflict and ended as something quite different.

Cultural categories, in fact, need not constrain us since they can always be used against themselves to open up new possibilities.

You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.

Turns out an apocalypse actually comes on pretty slowly. Not fire and brimstone, but rust and dandelions. Not a bang but a whimper.

Turns out an apocalypse actually comes on pretty slowly. Not fire and brimstone but rust and dandelions. Not a bang but a whimper. Perhaps

What happened in August of this year

Isn't it funny how just changing your location changes your perspective?

her lunch shift. Then all of a sudden, I heard this giant WHOOM! People started yelling, the fire alarm started blaring, and I could smell smoke. A second later, Mom was there. "Come on, Rafe," she said. "We have to go—right now!" And she hustled me out the back door.

You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak.

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

Friendships naturally shift over life. We have different friends for different times in our lives, and sometimes it's not the best idea to hang on to a friendship to try to make it work if it's an unhealthy connection.

I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.

Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.

There're been sort of a sea change in my work in general, in that the more personal, the universal it's become.

I didn't want to take the DC universe, put it in a box, shake the box and pour it out. I wanted to take the major characters and show what they could be like if they were put on a different path.

Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

This is women's moment to shift the tectonic plates of power on both the personal life and the leadership levels.

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.