Best Drifting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…

“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”

Ifs Philosophy Past Accepting History Our Lives Wind Universal Response Males Definitions Myth Bias Our Past Lenses Drifting

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Past Knowledge Driven Uncertainty Spheres Slips Sail Drifting Elude Inconstancy

Book:Pensees

Source: Pensees

“I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.”

Thinking Knows Real Ends Constitution Patriotism Patriot Drifting

Author:William Howard Taft

“We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when it happens? That creation? That magic blending? I might say we became figures in a mesmerized dance before the rocking talisman of the moon, starting slow, so slow... a pair of feathers drifting through clear liquid substance of sky... gradually accelerating, faster and faster and finally into photon existence of pure light... as my whole straining body burst like fluid electricity into hers.”

“Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism.”

Ends Whole Body Desire Space Century Tvs Ideology Shopping Twentieth Century Liquid Malls Drifting Expenditures Cyber

Author:Arthur Kroker

“Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished countrymen leave testamentary directions for the cubic eikosiheptagram to be engraved on theirs. Spirit of the Universe! wither are we drifting, and when, where, and how is all this to end?”

Ends Reason Might Science Spirit Universe Mathematics Spheres Distinguished Drifting Countrymen Tombstone Cones Engraved Cylinders

Book:1854-1973

Source: 1854-1973

“Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.”

Needs Firsts Might Grows Parent Interesting Behinds Accepting Roles Generations Stage Example Connections Complexes Separation Passages Grandparent Drifting Mentoring

Book:Childhood's Future

Source: Childhood's Future

“One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.”

Religious Justice Darkness Poet Creatures Wounds Billions One Time Drifting Religious Experience

Author:Graham Hawkes

“There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores”

Journey Wind Clouds Drifting Seashore

Author:Matsuo Basho

“When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.”

“Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.”

Ambition Intention Drifting

Author:Mason Cooley

“There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.”

Sometimes Lines Cases Genius Insanity Back And Forth Larry Drifting

Author:Leo Durocher

“...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.”

Wind Drifting

Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.”

Ifs World Giving Kind Eye Certain Behinds Achieve Flow Balls Appearance Contact Planes Assumption Cosmic Drifting Ripple Profane Unconsciousness Giggle Rupture

Author:Terence McKenna

“We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.”

Losing Concepts Drifting

Author:George Lucas

“The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems to perk up the sows' appetite. Or a lady is listening on headphones as she jogs along a beach, running to my cadence. Or a dog sits in front of the radio, head cocked, and the sibilants excite him in some mysterious way. A dog's humorist, that's me.”

Way Seems Running Sound Voice Audience Dog Fronts Listening Radio Invisible Mysterious Beach Appetite Drifting Humorists Perks Barns Cadence Swine Headphones Mysterious Ways

Author:Garrison Keillor

“I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what it is and I'm not drifting too far away at certain points, then I can play with the idea and take it anywhere I want to.”

Want Long I Can Ideas Play Facts Certain Understanding Slave Far Away Drifting Be A Slave

Author:Scott Walker

“Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.”

Way Problem Mountain Drifting

Author:Jim Rohn

“Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that, I tell myself that lying down to an afternoon nap that goes on and on through eternity is not something to be concerned about. What spoils this pleasant fancy is the recollection that when people are dead they don't read books. This I find unbearable.”

Source: Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999

“...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span.”

Boat Drifting Life Span Row Boats

Author:James Patterson

“When characters are drifting away from the "correct road", or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose control, they find other goals...and possibly their real selves. All these moments of changes, of self-questioning, are like an engine to the films I make - that's where lie the dynamics I'm interested in as a director.”

Real Self Moments Character Facts Film Lying Goal Loses Directors Engines Questioning Drifting Dynamics Real Self Self Questioning Drifting Away

Author:Anne Fontaine

“I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we're drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.”

Littles Serious Goes On Complicated Casual Drifting Ambiguous Drifting Away

Author:Billy Collins

“Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?”

Knows World Mind Doe Whole Light Darkness Tree Wind Errors Whole World Enlightening Drifting

Author:Saint Augustine

“If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.”

Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

“Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.”

Awareness Willing Wind Discipline Built Foundation Good Things Disappointment Bridges Accomplishment Swim Bitterness Drifting Kites Rise Against

Author:Jim Rohn

“The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.”

Church Poet Grew Drifting Jurists Drifting Away

Book:Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

Source: Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

“Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.”

Mind Past Anchors Drifting Present Time Undisciplined

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and that is: I say that I'm not entitled to have an opinion on this subject unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who support it. I think only when I've reached that state am I qualified to speak. This business of not drifting into extreme ideology is a very, very important thing in life”