Quotes About Shift

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

For good or for ill, Britain is in some respects moving away from a prime-ministerial system towards a presidential one. This is emphatically not, as is sometimes argued, simply a function of Tony Blair's personal ambition. The shift towards a more presidential style was already visible under Margaret Thatcher.

If something isn't working, do something different,

what-aboutery," the practice of diverting attention from the difficulty under discussion by raising a different problematic issue. ("Never mind X, what about Y?")

A lot can happen in the space of a step.

transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way.

There will be sway.

You're just not always in a place for as long as you thought you'd be.

those were different times.

Worship is a shift of attention that allows us to see God better. Worship is like corrective lenses for our souls, bringing God clearer into view.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

It was one of those moments when the universe is poised to plunge down a different path.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

There is a natural rhythm and flow of life. Things come and things go. I believ that when something goes, it is to make place for something new.

the feelings flattened and folded and turned into something else, like emotional origami.

Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction.

There was always, even now, a before and an after.

Like whites in South Africa or the Southern states who knew that things had changed, who even accepted the changes, but who couldn't quite shake the certainty deeply, diplomatically, hidden, that they should still be in charge.

Things were not as they seemed. The known world was shifting, reforming. Everything he'd taken as a given, a fact, as real and unquestioned, had fallen away. But

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

No evil can persist, and as to things, Why, nothing is unchangeable.

To do that, you need to shift your mindset from one that focuses on the practice of law to one that focuses on how the business must work.

Daniel understood that in the blink of an eye you might reinvent yourself. He understood that the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.