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Quotes About Drifted

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.
~ John Berger
Today, many Protestant churches describe themselves as evangelical, but they have drifted far from the positions of the original Protestants. They still reject the pope, but the fact that many of them are governed by a pope-like, charismatic, and visionary leader calls out for protest and reformation.
~ Daniel R. Hyde
A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.
~ Douglas Adams
Nina drifted in and out of consciousness. She didn't really want to awaken. As awful as her dreams had been, she had a sense that the world would look even worse with her eyes open.
~ Alan Russell
Two of them drifted over to intercept me with the easy calm of big cats that have been fed recently.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Already on course for the door, I made no attempt to detour in their direction, and this must have occurred to them only when I was halfway across the hall. Two of them drifted over to intercept me with the easy calm of big cats that have been fed recently.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.
~ Neil Gaiman
I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences.
~ David Thewlis
cloudlets of striped and spotted smoke drifted slowly from his mouth.
~ Richard A. Lupoff
I drifted just outside, contemplating the dark interior.
~ Richard Paul Russo
his head burst in a blizzard of seeds that hung in the lamplight and drifted slowly to the ground like a tiny division of poison paratroopers.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Becca drifted off hoping that friendship, some of the most powerful magic there was, had cast its spell on Astrid.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
A great many of us have been concerned about the presidential nomination system... whether or not we have drifted into a system that simply doesn't work so well any more.
~ Terry Sanford
And so we drifted towards calamity. At times, Cicero was shrewd enough to see it. "Can a constitution devised centuries ago to replace a monarchy, and based upon a citizens' militia, possibly hope to run an empire whose scope is beyond anything ever dreamed of by its framers? Or must the existence of standing armies and the influx of inconceivable wealth inevitably destroy our democratic system?
~ Robert Harris
Drifting is what one does when looking at lateral truth. He couldn't follow any known method of procedure to uncover its cause because it was these methods and procedures that were all screwed up in the first place. So he drifted. That was all he could do.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
They were cosy and comfortable in their little house made of logs, with the snow drifted around it and the wind crying because it could not get in by the fire.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
The world has drifted unspeakably far from its origin and intention, and is not a worthy guide to what is right, true, and healing.
~ Alan Cohen
After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.
~ Alex Winter
that into adulthood, even when Tony drifted into
~ Douglas Skelton
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Why they came east I don't know. They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her time, through space, through the concatenate cells of her unfolding self. Where to now, Abbzug? You're twenty-eight and a half years old, Abbzug. 
~ Edward Abbey
I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean surging through its body.
~ Edward Hirsch
A few strands of dark hair floated around her face, escaped from his braid, but the five-point restraints kept her firmly in her seat as the shuttle Leonard Cohen matched velocities with the starship and drifted into position along her central axis.
~ Elizabeth Bear