Shifting Place Quotes

#1. I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something. - Author: Zach Galifianakis

#2. In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being created, just like the world around us, never predictable, always shifting and intertwining, reflecting and echoing itself. - Author: Pattiann Rogers

#3. There is a powerful shifting that takes place as we abandon the right to understand and yield to God's working in our lives. - Author: Jo Ann Fore

#4. I love pubs and I love pub culture. - Author: Jodie Whittaker

#5. And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you. - Author: Elton John

#6. Birds of fortuity flutter down on her shoulders ... - Author: Milan Kundera

#7. Over time, each day has become another stretch on an endless pilgrimage road. The terrain of this sacred journey has become fluid and ever-shifting. Every step of the way is an arrival, but not a place to linger. - Author: Anthony Lawlor

#8. What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance. - Author: John W. Thompson

#9. When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings. - Author: Shirley Maclaine

#10. When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words. - Author: Owen Barfield

#11. Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad. - Author: Fulton J. Sheen

#12. For in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing. - Author: Lee Smith

#13. He could live in this shifting place of betrayals within betrayals, of no loyalties honored, of the strong crushing the weak, no more. He preferred soldiering where you knew who your enemies were before the battle began. - Author: Kathleen Koen

#14. Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work. - Author: Heinrich Boll

#15. Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali. - Author: Will Smith

#16. The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin. - Author: Quentin Tarantino

#17. A great sea fog is not homogenous
its density varies: it is honeycombed with streets, it has its caves of clear air, its cliffs of solid vapour, all shifting and changing place with the subtlety of legerdemain. - Author: Henry De Vere Stacpoole

#18. A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song. - Author: Martin Scorsese

#19. You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value. - Author: Andrew J. Bernstein

#20. I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them. - Author: Tucker Max

#21. So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected. - Author: Cornelia Funke

#22. Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place. - Author: Theodor Herzl

#23. We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere. - Author: Cate Blanchett

#24. Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail. - Author: John Berendt

#25. No place is the same because everything is shifting always. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#26. Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up. Racially mixed up, people moving from place to place, everything shifting. - Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#27. The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you. - Author: Gautama Buddha