Quotes About Drift

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

Volar liviano produce alegría, volar a la deriva es angustiante. El cambio es embriagador, la volatilidad es preocupante. ¿La insoportable levedad del sexo?

I've pressed so far away from my desire that if you asked me what I want I would, accepting the harmonious completion of the drift, say annihilation, probably.

I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

She let herself drift; the crowd sustained her and did not shock her; she loved it because it was life, unknown, thoughtless, foolish life devoted to the thoughtless and foolish goals which bobbed on its surface like colored buoys on a choppy sea.

Organizations in the valley of death have a natural tendency to drift back into the morass of confusion. They are very sensitive to obscure or ambiguous signals from their management

I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.

While I never really awoke until morning, sounds and noises seemed to drift to me through my veil of slumber

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.

I was soon bored, and my mind would drift.

The air moves like a river and carries the clouds with it; just as running water carries all the things that float upon it.

I STARTED MAKING MAPS WHEN I WAS SMALL SHOWING PLACE, RESOURCES, WHERE THE ENEMY AND WHERE LOVE LAY. I DID NOT KNOW TIME ADDS TO LAND. EVENTS DRIFT CONTINUALLY DOWN, EFFACING LANDMARKS, RAISING THE LEVEL, LIKE SNOW.

Nous sommes un cimetière à la dérive.

So there we were on that ice floe, just the two of us, adrift in the polar night. Viskovitz turned and said, I'd like you to get our conversation down in black and white. It's not possible, I answered. I'm not a typist. I'm not a writer. I'm a penguin. As far as I'm concerned 'getting it down in black and white' means making more penguins. So instead, there I was a month later, standing still with an egg under my belly, remembering... I was the one who had brought up the subject.

You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me.

The drift away from the Bible has weakened the church.

A wide array of factors can determine just how quickly you'll be able to drift off to sleep when you choose to do so.

Years of passivity and drift among U.S. policymakers have allowed the U.S. - China trade deficit to grow to the point where is widely recognized as a major threat to our economy.

And Jabim is the Lord of broken things, who sitteth behind the house to lament the things that are cast away. And there he sitteth lamenting the broken things until the worlds be ended, or until someone cometh to mend the broken things. Or sometimes he sitteth by the river's edge to lament the forgotten things that drift upon it. A kindly god is Jabim, whose heart is sore if anything be lost.

I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.

If the current is right, one can drift to success.

And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the vine of days.

My tears are like the quiet drift Of petals from some magic rose; And all my grief flows from the rift Of unremembered skies and snows.