Drift Quotes

339 quotes by 288 authors

A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh.… — Kevin Brockmeier
works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift… — Rebecca West
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. — Winston Churchill
I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land… — Philip Pullman
Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can… — Khalil Gibran
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the… — D. A. Carson
I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You… — Diane Setterfield
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and… — Pope Benedict XVI
Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said, smiling. "You can hold on to… — Charlaine Harris
Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on… — Margaret Atwood
In a world of unrest and fear, political turmoil and moral drift, I testify that Jesus is the Christâ€”that He is the living Bread and… — Jeffrey R. Holland
We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds. — Rhys Bowen
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces… — Dante Alighieri
People come, people go â€“ theyâ€™ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the… — Nicholas Sparks
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a… — Robert Frost
What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.… — Frederick Buechner

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