Quotes About Shift

It was a small thing, perhaps, but great changes begin with small things.

I've changed professions so many times that sometimes I think I should tack Misc. after my name. Jane Kelly, Misc.

A move is a way of lightening your load and starting things new.

Honor the space between no longer and not yet.

A worldview can be replaced only by another worldview.

Nothing last forever except change

It's not a fucking crisis anymore. This is the new reality.

When the people change, the palace cannot hold.

You do remember," continues Semple, "that they turned overnight when the Shah fell and the Ayatollah came to power? You do remember that it happens that quickly?

What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.

If you want to change who you are, change what you want

Changing from the defensive to the offensive, is one of the most delicate operations in war.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

The time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first.

Life is funny like that; just about the time you're able to fully appreciate the accommodations, you're checking out of the hotel.

I've decided...I can't remain at a standstill anymore.

So we have transitioned from bugger off to philosophy now?

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

It is my intention in this book to show that a great media-metaphor shift has taken place in America, with the result that the content of much of our public discourse has become dangerous nonsense.

Missiologist Dr. Stuart Murray identified seven transitions that mark a shift from Christendom to a post-Christendom culture that the church has to come to terms with: from the center to the margins, from majority to minority, from settlers to sojourners, from privilege to plurality, from control to witness, from maintenance to mission, and from institution to movement.

Disaffection, once begun, acquires a momentum of its own

Out of the blue and into the black

It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.