Shifting Quotes - Page 2

• The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.

  Marcelo Gleiser

  Reality, Ideas, Mosaics

  Marcelo Gleiser (2014). “The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning”, p.14, Basic Books

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• You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east. And there are a lot of new members. And if you just take the list of all the members of NATO and all of those who have been invited in recently -- what is it? Twenty-six, something like that? -- you're right. Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Europe, Twenties

  Briefing at Foreign Press Center, Washington, D.C., 22 Jan. 2003

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• The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Science, Law

  Alfred North Whitehead (1939). “An introduction to mathematics”

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• And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or is it just a consolation ? a shifting of responsibility? and if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ?

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Responsibility, Egypt, Strenght

  Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.326, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' - he held out both hands as though shifting a piece of furniture - 'were going to be sitting there, and I was going to get down on one knee, and...and...

  Lauren Willig

  Loss, Hands, Oysters

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• The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.

  Mark Doty

  Distance, Reality, Would Be

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• First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another to find the meaning of life no doubt. But in the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. You cannot tell me who I am and I cannot tell you who you are. If you do not know your own identity, who is going to identify you?

  Thomas Merton

  Responsibility, Destiny, Men

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

  Naomi Klein

  Moving, Law, Three

  Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.306, Macmillan

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• They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

  Stephen King

  Stars, Couple, School

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.29, Anchor

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• For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object has been real, the photograph surreptitiously induces belief that it is alive, because of that delusion which makes us attribute to Reality an absolute superior, somehow eternal value; but by shifting this reality to the past ("this-has-been"), the photograph suggests that it is already dead.

  Roland Barthes

  Real, Past, Two

  "Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography". Essay by Roland Barthes (translated by R. Howard), 1980.

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• Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.

  Tom Wolfe

  Simple, Men, Curves

  Tom Wolfe (2009). “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby”, p.147, Macmillan

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• Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Home, Quagmire, May

  Henrik Ibsen (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”

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• I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

  Naveen Jain

  Believe, Government, Space

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• As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.

  Mindy Kaling

  Kids, Years, Adorable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

  Ken Livingstone

  Gdp, Three, Four

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• Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.

  David Suzuki

  Hurt, Energy, Packaging

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• The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

  Saul Williams

  Art, Thinking, Focus

  "Infecting Nike, Initiating Obama: An Interview With Saul Williams". Interview with Scott Thill, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2008.

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• Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere.

  James Wolcott

  Hair, Rocks, Shameless

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• I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.

  Brendan Fraser

  Judging, Priorities, Family And Friends

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

  will.i.am

  Fighting, Accepted, Form

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of spring. The trees met, blending over the road and the spots of sun on the ground moved with the shifting of the branches, like a conscious caress.

  Ayn Rand

  Hurt, Spring, Eye

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.480, Penguin

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• I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.

  Marisha Pessl

  Sea, Adults, Desert

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.392, Penguin

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• Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune

  Frank Herbert

  Player, Games, Missing

  Frank Herbert (2011). “Chapter House Dune: The Sixth Dune Novel”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Dark, Rooms, Realizing

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• White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.

  Ron Fournier

  War, Home, White

  "Here's Why The White House Leaked News That Obama Overruled Petraeus On Afghan Troop Drawdown" by Ricky Kreitner, www.businessinsider.com. June 23, 2011.

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