Top 582 Shifting Quotes & Sayings

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

Change is continuous and the aggregate of the self is constantly shifting.

The amount of random conversations that lead to culture-shifting ideas is insane.

You're always kind of shifting and changing and it's a really exciting process.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.

In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.

When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.

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

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'

On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.

Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few

Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance.

Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.

The viral landscape is shifting and changing.

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.

No place is the same because everything is shifting always.

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.

I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.

I love shifting between being super cute and aggressive. It's funny.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

Recording shows for later viewing is what TV types call 'time-shifting.' It's a beguiling idea.

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

Shifting loyalties in the Middle East make it difficult to vet supposed moderate groups.

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

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.

Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?

What do I want from a book? Something protean, something always on-the-move-or-make - shape-shifting, semantically-and-syntactically-shifting.

At the same time, you had Barack Obama as a president. You had Hillary Clinton on track, all the Democrats looking good. And, you know, Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch. And, over time, you came to realize that Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message. And, slowly, I think, even as a show, we started shifting in tone as the election started shifting.

There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

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

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet.

I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.

Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.

TV is very mass, especially now that boxes are shifting to small towns.

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.

I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

No one understands the impacts of shifting fish stocks more than commercial and recreational fishermen in my district.

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

Shifting in the hospital bed had blown her closet door wide open.