Quotes About Shift

If nothing ended, then we'd all be stuck in the middle.

We make sense of the world, some philosopher once said, only through its rearrangement, through a constant shift in perspective coupled with a slight movement of this or that here and there and then here again. In that manner, in the imperfections such movements reveal, the truth becomes apparent.

To rob Peter and pay Paul.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

After the Wall

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux that nothing remains long in the same state.

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

between 2007 and 2012 the U.S. workforce gained 387,000 managers while losing almost two million clerical jobs.

Ideas shape the course of history.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

Only once in the historical record has a jump on the San Andreas exceeded the jump of 1906. In 1857, near Tejon Pass outside Los Angeles, the two sides shifted thirty feet.

Harper prefers winter, when it gets dark at three thirty and is pitch black by the time she finishes her shift. The summer sun reveals too much.

To think about what is new, we cannot use old concepts— particularly not concepts that have been emptied of their meaning and their usefulness by the very assaults that brought about this break in human history. We cannot use concepts from Before, inherited from a world that exists no longer, to explore the After.

It takes only one person to change a relationship.

The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren't paying attention.

Yes, surely that was a disruption. But it was not even remotely the whole story.

Patty watches silently, pale eyes alert as they shift form Elspeth's face to mine and back again.

His shrug rearranged bony shoulders like a ridgeline shifting; the light of the lamp glinted amber in the depths of his eyes.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

There can occur in lives a subsidence under the soil, so that, without the surface having been visibly broken, gradients alter, uprights cant a little out of the straight.

You have trodden paths on which you would never have set foot were it not for my urging - " She broke off and searched his face. "But you need to know that I would follow you barefoot and in my shift and still be the proudest woman in England.