Drift Quotes

339 quotes by 299 authors

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent. — David M. Raup
I've always been a daydreamer, and sometimes in lessons my mind would drift and I'd imagine that on the way home a terrorist might jump… — Malala Yousafzai
We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used,… — Jimmy Carter
Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood. — Albert Einstein
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for… — Herbert V. Prochnow
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer. — George Bernard Shaw
Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons,… — Edward Abbey
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. — George Bernard Shaw
It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge.… — Gore Vidal
How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would… — Jim Beaver
While I was watching you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind as summer clouds drift across the sky. — Cornel Wilde
It is impossible to overestimate the influence of parents who understand the hearts of their children. Research shows that during the most important transitions of… — Robert D. Hales
To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who… — Alfred Nobel
Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary.… — Friedrich August von Hayek
If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates oneâ€™s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the… — Joseph Brodsky
Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag. — Tennessee Williams
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see… — Arthur Miller
The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience… — Bridget Riley
I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a… — Deb Caletti
From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most… — Elwyn Brooks White

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