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Quotes about Shifts

He sent them to Lebanon in monthly shifts of 10,000 men, so that they would spend one month in Lebanon and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.
- 1 Kings 5:14
I heard my grandfathers voice. What do they think-- the storms will never come? You build a house on the sand, the sand shifts eventually... Remember that.
- Lisa Wingate
It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.
- Al Gore
If you want to be successful as a leader, you need to learn to become comfortable with uncertainty and make shifts continually.
- John Maxwell
For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.
- John Milton
The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
- George Eliot
The wild vicissitudes of taste.
- Samuel Johnson
It was his misfortune to be in love with his wife; and this state of mind (in itself sufficiently ridiculous) and the shifts and compromises to which it reduced him, were a source of endless amusement to the humorists.
- Edith Wharton
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
- Reinhold Niebuhr