Sift Quotes

48 quotes by 43 authors

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
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality — David Mitchell
All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out… — Gary Snyder
And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his… — John Steinbeck
For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where… — Ray Bradbury
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all… — George Eliot
Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves… — Jim Butcher
The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the… — Annie Dillard
Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people. — Timothy Zahn
Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my… — Anne Rice
What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and… — Eleanor Roosevelt
This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves,… — David Levithan
It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while… — Erin Morgenstern
A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of… — Arabian Proverb
Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right… — Dinah Mulock Craik
A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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43 authors contributed a total of 48 Sift Quotes, led by these top contributors: