Sift Quotes

48 Sift quotes by 43 unique authors

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want… — Billie Joe Armstrong
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. — Henry Ward Beecher
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. — Arlene Francis
Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun… — James Joyce
But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because… — Portia de Rossi
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms… — Helen Frankenthaler
Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish… — Ayn Rand
I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have… — Ezra Taft Benson
We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be… — Edward Bernays
As you sift through this very solid-looking body, you have to go only so far before you end up with a handful of nothing. — Deepak Chopra
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow… — James Dwight Dana
And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the… — John Donne
It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like. — Mark Hoppus
It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given… — Charlie Munger
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. — Margaret Fuller
We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour,… — Rebecca Solnit
All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for… — Michael Moritz
While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it… — Maria Bartiromo
Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.' — Kathryn Hahn
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? — Tillie Olsen
Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might.… — Evgeny Morozov
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take… — George Eliot

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