Quotes About Shifting Gears

#1. You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.

Leontyne Price

#2. Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.

Louis Navellier

#3. Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".

Dwight Macdonald

#4. Hate Spinnerbait!

Sarah Dessen

#5. the atmosphere of the town was an artificial creation whose existence relied on the subtle attentions of its inhabitants.

Jeff VanderMeer

#6. Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.

Marilyn Monroe

#7. I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.

Troy Polamalu

#8. None of the participants ever arrived at a clear understanding of the actual horror of Auschwitz, which is of a different nature from all the atrocities of the past, because it appeared to prosecution alike as not much more than the most horrible pogrom in Jewish history.

Hannah Arendt

#9. 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

#10. My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

Frank Ocean

#11. Who would have thought that the singular whole of her forgiveness was a more valuable gift than a hundred of her parts?

Neal Shusterman

#12. Gear-shifting is thus a phenomenon of a higher logical type than giving gas, and it would be patently nonsensical to talk about the mechanics of complex gears in the language of the thermodynamics of fuel supply.

Paul Watzlawick

#13. I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago.

Mary Quant

#14. Waiter: "Tea or coffee, gentlemen?" First customer: "I'll have tea." Second customer: "Me too - and be sure the glass is clean!" (WAITER EXITS, RETURNS) Waiter: "Two teas. Which one asked for the clean glass?

Leo Rosten