Drifting Quotes
193 quotes by 174 authors
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We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky.
— Mooji
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Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of…
— Jane Fonda
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Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure…
— David R. Brower
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As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong…
— Leon Trotsky
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If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.
— Napoleon Hill
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Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving…
— Richard G. Scott
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Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
— Jayne Anne Phillips
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What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the earth was and…
— Knut Hamsun
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A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds…
— Cyril Connolly
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I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm…
— Johnny Vegas
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A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot…
— Joseph Pulitzer
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I think you have a deeply anxious leadership in China that knows its legitimacy is drifting away, that’s sending its [personal] money and its children…
— Larry Diamond
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The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy.…
— Robert Loveman
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The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west...
— Robert Loveman
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The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea,…
— James Russell Lowell
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The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where…
— Charles Dickens
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The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in…
— Charles Dickens
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Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind…
— Jo Nesbo
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost…
— Ted Yoho
Who Wrote These Drifting Quotes
174 authors contributed a total of 193 Drifting Quotes, led by these top contributors: