Drifting Quotes
193 quotes by 180 authors
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The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.
— Murasaki Shikibu
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It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is…
— Richard Branson
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The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the…
— Joshua Slocum
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I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so.
— George Carlin
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Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.
— Annie Besant
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It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock…
— Carl Sandburg
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For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and…
— Albert Einstein
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I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and…
— Ryan Kwanten
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
— Edward Abbey
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On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become…
— Lynn Johnston
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Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with…
— Martin Heidegger
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Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes…
— Ralph Marston
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The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.
— Jamie McGuire
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... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it…
— H.G. Wells
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You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed…
— Rumi
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The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be…
— Alva Myrdal
Who Wrote These Drifting Quotes
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