Shifting Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

  David Suzuki

  Energy, Climate, Cost

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• I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Acceptance, Self, Perspective

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• I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

  Camille Paglia

  Change, Beauty, Believe

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.99, Vintage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Fall, Parent, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.

  Sylvia Plath

  Starting Over, Judging, Forever

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

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• sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Powerful, Rocks, Scary

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.204, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

  Sarah Dessen

  Disappointment, World, Disillusionment

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.134, Penguin

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• Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Girl, Baby, Eye

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.94, Faber & Faber

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• Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

  Peter McWilliams

  Determination, Matter, Will Power

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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