Drift Quotes

339 quotes by 296 authors

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea… — John F. Kennedy
My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I… — William Shakespeare
The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and… — Eric Hoffer
Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth… — Margaret Sanger
Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink. — William Styron
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift. — Sherwood Anderson
About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they… — Earl Nightingale
Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird,… — Jerry Saltz
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters. — Georg Trakl
I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and… — Lawren Harris
But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible… — Rachel Carson
Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in… — Will Rogers
The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the… — Joaquin Miller
Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with… — Hermann Hesse
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother… — Amos Bronson Alcott
A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white. — Heinrich Heine
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. — Richard Dawkins
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. — Albert Einstein
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When… — Jean Ingelow

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