Quotes About Shift

The instantaneous shift from calm to calamity. The slowing of time. Every sense suddenly wire-taut and screaming.

She had always been a chameleon, taking on accents and manners suited to her circumstance, but now she felt as though she had changed into something new, and she couldn't change back.

The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery.

All things change according to the state we are in. Nothing is fixed.

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

retire-or-expire

Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many.

more John Doe than Mike May. He played with this changing

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." ? Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Every hundred feet the world changes

breaking tradition always comes with a noise like mountains falling.

There is in the worst of fortune the best chances for a happy change.

Nothing changes until you change.

All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end

Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.

All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and so gorgeous at the end.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

Time had changed the magical to mundane

Abigail Adams, who did not set sail until November, seemed miffed by the enforced southward shift, swearing that she would try to enjoy Philadelphia but that "when all is done it will not be Broadway.

For a long time, he had resisted an irreversible shift to pipes for fear of antagonizing the railroads, but this concern had lost its force. When Standard Oil constructed four pipelines from western Pennsylvania to Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Buffalo, he pressured the railroads to grant it right-of-way concessions, even though the pipelines signaled their doom.

42 The government was obviously withdrawing its support.

the power balance has tilted dramatically away from the bankers.

inflection point, when society will make a radical adjustment, for good or ill.