Best Sifting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Haven’t you ever heard of a woman’s “lying privilege?”

Source: Mia's Magic Wand

“Some think it is the big things that cause men to stumble. Often it is the minor ones that shake us the most. This shows the futility of self-confidence.”

Little Things Unshakable Sifting

Book:The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense

Source: The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense

“Closing his eyes, he held her tightly and sifted place in a general southerly direction, pushing to the farthest limits his diminished power could carry him. The moment he rematerialized, he instantly sifted again, arms locked around her. Railroad track. Sift. Grocery store. Keep moving. Roof of a house. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Bloody Midwest. Sift.”

Adam Midwest Karen Marie Moning Sifting Gabby The Immortal Highlander Cornfields

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

“This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.”

Self Process Buddhism Mindfulness Analysis Sifting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat. Oh! be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on.”

Men Heart Soul Answers Feet Judgment My Soul Seats Retreat Trumpets Sifting Marching On

Book:Later Lyrics

Source: Later Lyrics

“A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.”

“I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.”

Trying Wonderful Conviction My Thoughts Sifting

Book:Gilead: A Novel

Source: Gilead: A Novel

“False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.”

Made Watches History Written News Asking Clay Archaeologists Sifting

Book:A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981

Source: A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981

“Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.”

Kind Values Difficult Rooms Clear Letting Go Paper Daughter Wander My Daughter Nuts Sentimental Papers Clutter Refreshing Authentic Happiness Sifting Sentimental Value

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.”

Creative Labor Critical Toil Testing Composing Correcting Combining Sifting

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.”

People Failing Gold Treasure Hunting Sifting

Book:Walking on Water: A Novel

Source: Walking on Water: A Novel

“When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through a rack of clothes, somehow that piece of clothing that you had so much fun designing speaks to her she responds to it and buys it. I believe you can actually transfer that energy to material things as you're creating them.”

“Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I.”

“I'd love to say that every move I make is completely calculated and I'm sitting on a pile of scripts, sifting through them for the perfect role, but the fact is that there are a lot of talented people out there and there's a lot of competition in our business.”

People Facts Moving Perfect Roles Sitting Competition Scripts Sifting

Author:Eric Balfour

“Put in every joke that's not a dud and then let's just start pulling the ones that work the least. You're just constantly sifting until you're left with the biggest chunks of gold. The audience also tells you what some of those chunks are. You can have your own favorites, and then, once you screen it for an audience, the audience tells you what they're entertained by. I feel like that's a big part of it.”

Feels Bigs Left Audience Jokes Gold Screens Pulling Chunks Sifting

Author:Jason H. Moore

“I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running my band and touring and making posters and practicing with my band and working on my vocals, but I didn't spend a large pie chart of my time sifting through criticism as well, and nowadays I do, and all female artists do, because to be able to promote your work, you need to live in those spaces.”

Thinking Needs Writing Years Wells Running Able Artist Space Perspective Internet Band Female Years Ago Criticism My Time Twelve Pie Vocal Touring Posters Sifting Female Artists

Author:Amanda Palmer

“I don't go into any album with a concept or a deliberate direction. It's more letting the best music that really appeals to me at the time, the best songs that I find after many months and years of search and sifting through my collection, and asking radio people and journalists. It's really an ongoing search that's as much daunting as it is somewhat exciting.”

People Years Song Months Concepts Exciting Asking Radio Albums Appeals Journalist Collections Deliberate Ongoing Sifting

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“The charter school is a possibility, an alternative in certain circumstances, but not in most, and not in most places, and not - most parents don't have either the time, the inclination or the aptitude to sit and go through sifting what school and what is available and what the options are.”

School Certain Parent Possibility Circumstances Available Alternatives Inclination Charter Aptitude Sifting Charter Schools

Author:Mark Shields

“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 cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.”

Men Way Should Age Young Fall Bits Memories Gold Dust Cracks Adam Dirt Mining Sifting Gold Dust

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

“Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.”

Light Turns Memories Dust Beloved Floating Daylight Sifting

Author: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 down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard-to-pin-down striated pillow formation.”

“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 fault's slavery, If I can sing, I still am free. For with my singing I can make A refuge for my spirit's sake, A house of shining words, to be My fragile immortality.”

Ifs Stills I Can Hands Spirit House My Own Beats Singing Slavery Shining Faults Sake Defeat Immortality Sand Gray Fragile Refuge Pulse Sifting

Book:Love Songs

Source: Love Songs

“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 Kisten —until I had pinned him in an elevator in a foolish moment of vampire-induced passion. It's hard to be scared of someone after you've French-kissed him.”

Mind Hard Moments Passion Knowing Shapes Scared Foolish Vampire Ivy Elevators Sifting Algaliarept

Book:Every Which Way But Dead

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

“Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.”

Mind States Running Past State Of Mind Grain Tipping Sifting Hourglass

Book:The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

Source: The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”

“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 discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.”

Long Has Beens Seems Science Imagination Results Minutes Hard Work Discovery Dignity Rewards Patient Labour Something New Accurate Measurement Lofty Sifting

Author:Lord Kelvin

“But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

“Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.”

“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 sunlight sifting to a forest floor.”

Matter Wisdom Passion Peace Our Lives Passionate Forests Golden Settling Sunlight Sifting

Author: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 truth, either in religion, law, or politics.”

Ifs Men Needs Mean Government Law Politics Given Fairs Defense Operations Virtuous Sifting

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“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 we will rebel and refuse or be indifferent and not comply with the conditions and the laws and the ordinances provided by a merciful Father for our guidance through life and our protection and our salvation and thereby, by so doing, deny ourselves the fabulous gift and blessing of eternal life. This life, then, is a time of "sifting," a time when the "wheat" is separated from the "chaff," a time of deciding who is who and where we will live after we die.”

“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 siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.”

Heart Fall Singing Sacred Woods Cried Bloody Liquid Stains Nightingales Shrouds Sifting Sacred Heart Agamemnon

Author:T. S. Eliot

“The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.”

Wisdom Inspiring Wise Positive Buddhism Speech Positivity Buddhist Grain Sifting

Author:Gautama Buddha

“With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.”

I Can Spirit House Music Singing Shining Sake Immortality Fragile Refuge Sifting

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“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 out of the Church and that such teaching is part of the sifting process of mortality”

Knows Process Church Lord Teaching Taught Doctrine Mortality Permit Providence Sifting

Author:Bruce R. McConkie

“And each year now we know more, but we know no better — what we see in the sky is simply the softened gloss of the past sifting back to us, and likewise, every atom down the body’s shining length was inside a star, and will be again.”

Knows Years Body Past Stars Sky Shining Length Atoms Gloss Sifting

Book:Dark Matter: Poems

Source: Dark Matter: Poems

“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, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design.”

Ifs Past Design Dare Refuse Disappear Diamond Fragments Consumed Collecting Sifting

Book:A Sport and a Pastime

Source: A Sport and a Pastime

“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.”

Ifs Heart Existence Serious Cold Astronomy Cages Jewels Ruthless Cosmology Serious Business Sifting

Author: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 God.”

Men Heart Eye Action Motive Sifting

Author:Frank Bartleman

“Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.”

Past Work Dust Occupation Idle Retired Elderly Over The Past Sifting

Book:Hammer

Source: 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.”

Men Years Wells Turns Friendship Sunshine Good Man Steady Sifting

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“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, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and endeavouring to lay under contribution for the special purpose in hand the knowledge acquired in all portions of the wide field of exact science. Lastly, it acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions.”