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Quotes About Sifted

Untitled Either a snail's moist web of moonlight, or someone's hot breath at four a.m. when the night has been too much, has eaten you whole. This is my life. It has been sifted through the bones of my body, through blood. It is all that I have.
~ Joy Harjo
Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
~ Agatha Christie
Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined—sifted.
~ Agatha Christie
Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
You know how to end your life. Hers could be another story. We cannot help you with this decision. Yet when all is sifted, what remains? Faith.
~ An Na
Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
sawhorses and sifted it. Anna Coles took photographs. Any bones or
~ Robert Dugoni
Holly was playing the concerned relative, the devoted sister, and if it was a ham performance Robin was experienced enough, now, to know that there were usually nuggets of truth to be sifted from even the most obvious dross.
~ Robert Galbraith
A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.
~ Rudolf Arnheim
Beloved, are you being sifted? Has God permitted the enemy to launch a full-scale attack against you? God knows what He's doing. He isn't looking the other way, and He's not being mean to you. Maybe this is the only way He can get you to attend to the old so He can do something new. Grab onto Him for dear life! Give Him full reign to remove anything in you that needs to go. Hasten the end of the process. Sift, dear one. Sift!
~ Beth Moore
Probability is a powerful and troublesome test; and it is by this troublesome standard that a large portion of historical evidence is sifted. Consistency is no less pertinacious and exacting in its demands.
~ Homer
Because you seem not to be aware that any one who has an intellectual affinity to Socrates and enters into conversation with him is liable to be drawn into an argument; and whatever subject he may start, he will be continually carried round and round by him, until at last he finds that he has to give an account both of his present and past life; and when he is once entangled, Socrates will not let him go until he has completely and thoroughly sifted him.
~ Plato
History is not acceptable until it has been sifted for the truth.
~ Patrick White