Sift Quotes
48 Sift quotes by 43 unique authors
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Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
— David Mitchell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.
— Timothy Zahn
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
— Unknown Author
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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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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them…
— George Eliot
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The longer two people are together, the easier it becomes to notice some things that you were able to ignore before. And its not limited…
— The Guided Fate Paradox
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Trouble is a sieve through which we sift all our acquaintances. Those too big to go through are our real friends.
— Zahid Abas
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Friendship is precious not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part…
— Alone Boy
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Sift heads
— Corey Whitmore
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Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them…
— Massie Moxley
Who Wrote These Sift Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 48 Sift Quotes, led by these top contributors: