Sifting Quotes

24 Sifting quotes by 24 unique authors

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
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
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
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
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. — Gautama Buddha
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
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
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
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
Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired. — Armand Hammer
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
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
This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought. — Frederick Lenz
Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence. — John O'Donohue
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
Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light. — Toni Morrison
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
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
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
Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind. — Paula McLain
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest… — Lord Kelvin
Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day. — Unknown Author
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives,… — Hannah Kent
It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first… — James Payn

Who Wrote These Sifting Quotes

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