Sifting Quotes
24 quotes by 24 authors
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When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden…
— Thomas Kinkade
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If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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So this estate is given each of us to determine whether or not we will merit glory and honor "for ever and ever," or whether…
— ElRay L. Christiansen
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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
— Gautama Buddha
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I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be taught in and…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through,…
— James Salter
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Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.
— Dennis Overbye
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Men's hearts are being searched...it is a tremendous sifting time, not only of actions but of inner motives. Nothing can escape the all-searching eye of…
— Frank Bartleman
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Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.
— Armand Hammer
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Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.
— John Hay
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Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known,…
— Archibald Garrod
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This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.
— Frederick Lenz
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Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.
— John O'Donohue
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I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the…
— John Steinbeck
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Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.
— Toni Morrison
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But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting…
— Neal Stephenson
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From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own…
— Sara Teasdale
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Algaliarept varied its shape, sifting through my mind without me even knowing to choose what scared me the most. Once it had been Ivy. Then…
— Kim Harrison
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Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.
— Paula McLain
Who Wrote These Sifting Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 24 Sifting Quotes as follows: