Drift Quotes

339 quotes by 299 authors

[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny… — George Orwell
Responsibility for the creation of the good world in which the good life may be realized, which the frustrated ages of the past loaded upon… — Eustace Haydon
Be strong: we are not here to play, to dream, to drift, we have hard work to do and loads to lift, shun not the… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may… — George Orwell
You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness. — Leon Morris
Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do… — Anne Fadiman
Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift… — Daniel Pinchbeck
Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined… — Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door,… — Marsilio Ficino
With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break… — Og Mandino
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars. — Bernard M. Oliver
I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my… — Bill James
In this vivid depiction of the wiseguys and poor sods who drift through his flawed hero's bar, Con Lehane also shows us their modest hopes… — Margaret Maron
I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is. — Johnny Ramone
Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant… — Dennis Miller
Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.… — Marilyn Hacker
Look, my best friend is Xena, Warrior Princess and she is not going to like this forced wedding thing, if you get my drift. — Gabrielle
Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a… — Thomas Szasz

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