Adrift Quotes

48 Adrift quotes by 48 unique authors

Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the… — Toni Morrison
[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values but neither must… — Ronald Reagan
Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live. — Jon Voight
Weird Weekends set out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. To me, it's almost a privilege to be welcomed into these… — Louis Theroux
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek… — Dorothy Day
Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs… — Russell Kirk
A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of… — Fredrik Bajer
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I have felt God's… — Brian D. McLaren
True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits… — Rick Bayan
With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift. — Deepak Chopra
I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on… — Gregory of Nyssa
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary — Francis Parker Yockey
Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. — Bruce Lee
The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift. — Luke Davies
It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans… — Paul Ryan
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. — Simone de Beauvoir
No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for… — Victoria Woodhull
You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end. — Idries Shah
Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has gone over a… — Ann Coulter
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to… — Georges Duhamel
The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable. — Jean Genet
What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as… — Julianna Baggott
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In… — Lev Grossman
Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they… — Elizabeth Debold

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