Drift Quotes

339 quotes by 288 authors

She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of… — David Almond
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large.… — Daniel Goleman
Sometimes I feel so- I donâ€™t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything youâ€™re used to has been ripped away. Like thereâ€™s… — Haruki Murakami
Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If… — Jenny Downham
All you have to do is wait,â€ I explained. â€œSit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just… — Haruki Murakami
After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of… — Wilson Rawls
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to… — Michel de Montaigne
But this is such a "Wheel" moment. That song rocks. The best part is where John Mayer says how our connections are permanent, how if… — Susane Colasanti
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like… — Richard Russo
I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying… — Henry Miller
The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted… — Walter Mosley
The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of… — Janet Frame
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The… — William Boyd
anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay. — David Levithan
Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain,… — Margaret Atwood
By this time, half the people in High Norland were gathered in Royal Square to stare at the castle. They all watched with disbelief as… — Diana Wynne Jones
Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul. — Sara Gruen
A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and… — Pico Iyer
I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this… — Vladimir Nabokov
He rose to his feet in one fluid move, the better to look down at me. â€œYou donâ€™t know me, princess. Some people have reasons… — Rosemary Clement-Moore

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