Shifting Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.

  Hulk Hogan

  Moving, Drinking, Wrestling

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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 have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Climate, Suggestions, Environment

  "An interview with Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm". Interview with Keith Schneider, grist.org. October 27, 2004.

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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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• 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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• Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Home, College

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• Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

  Martha Beck

  Angel, Metaphysical, Given

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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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• God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.

  Joel Osteen

  Blessing, Opportunity, House

  "Joel Osteen explains the mysteries of unexpected blessings in 'Break Out!'". www.today.com. October 2, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

  Martha Beck

  Hope, Lonely, Believe

  "Secret to finding unexpected miracles" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Lord Maccon asked meekly, shifting against her in a manner that ensured she realized the nibbling had affected his outsides just as much as her insides. Alexia was partly shocked, partly intrigued by the idea that as he was naked, she might actually get to see what he looked like. She had seen sketches of the nude male, of course, for purely technical purposes. She was given to wonder if werewolves were anatomically bigger in certain areas.

  Gail Carriger

  Ideas, Males, Naked

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