#shift

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#breathe #certain #characters #conveying #enabling

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

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#characters #circumstances #imagine #interests #location

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT. ↗

— James Meade

#douglas #economics #expression #gradually #major

They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter. ↗

— Andrea Mitchell

#apprentice #could #eight #harm #hours

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it. ↗

— Thandie Newton

#gigantic #having #having children #i #life

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war. ↗

— Douglass North

#become #beliefs #communist #else #everybody

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#cause #culture #i #shifts #sure

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

#believe #change #continuing #economic #economic forces

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

— Leontyne Price

#era #gears #know #leave #life

Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#always #because #characters #days #difficult