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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. -- Blaise Pascal
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace. -- Paul Virilio
Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground. -- Ralph Marston
The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it. -- Dido Armstrong
The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom. -- Clarence Darrow
Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward? -- David R. Brower
If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas. -- Ruud van Nistelrooy
Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference. -- Jane Fonda
Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure. -- Napoleon Hill
...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span. -- James Patterson
Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love -- Jimi Hendrix
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A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks, And duckweed's opened up along his path. -- Bai Juyi
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting throught the wind Wanting to start again Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin Like a house of cards One blow from caving in -- Katy Perry
Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool. -- Benjamin Day
Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing. -- Gever Tulley
It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. -- Robert Plant
The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground. -- Jamie McGuire
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. -- Ian Mckellen
I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another. -- Eleanor Catton
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. -- Bob Dylan
We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us. -- Randall Terry
It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get. -- Harbhajan Singh
In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream? -- Lewis Carroll
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present. -- Glen Hansard
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught! -- Thomas a Kempis
Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage. -- Eugene Cernan
Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct. -- Robert Smith
I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long. -- Ellen DeGeneres
I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.' -- Robert Smith
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization. -- Alva Myrdal
No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards. -- Donella Meadows
In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance. -- Dean Koontz
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive. -- Alan Watts
My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency. -- Howard Schultz
It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories. -- Hannah Kent
And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. -- Ernest Gaines
I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies. -- Sarah Silverman
If you'd like to watch less television, try putting the remote away in a very inconvenient place and making yourself put it away every time you use it. If it's a big pain to turn on the TV and to change channels, you might find yourself drifting to other activities that will be more satisfying in the long run. -- Gretchen Rubin
Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time. -- Jo Nesbo
Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention. -- Mason Cooley
If your dreams seem to be drifting away, wake up! -- Benny Bellamacina
We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell. -- Bruce Robinson
Without goals we are nothing more than drifters, drifting where? -- Marilyn L. Rice
We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways." -- Bram Stoker
If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure. -- Napoleon Hill
Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. -- Annie Besant
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor. -- Bram Stoker
A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way. -- Howard Pyle
Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction. -- Laozi
...his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom. -- Chuck Klosterman
The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so. -- George Carlin
Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain. -- Jim Rohn
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m -- John Lennon
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on." -- Jayne Anne Phillips
If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost? -- Jodi Picoult
...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind. -- Virginia Gildersleeve
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life. -- Beatrice Webb
We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky. -- Mooji
Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke. -- Alfred Austin
If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed. -- Mario Monti
We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong. -- George Lucas
Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth. -- Lauren Oliver
Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me. -- Alice Cary
The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling withdisappointment to the ground -- Jamie McGuire
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink. -- Edward Abbey
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful. -- Ian Mckellen
Without the Project I was nothing but a secretary on a road to nowhere, drifting toward frosted hair and menthol addiction. -- Julie Powell
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate. -- Nguyen Cao Ky
The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep. -- Murasaki Shikibu
There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore. -- Sarah Dessen
The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west... -- Robert Loveman
Once we turn, it's new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty." Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. "Then dead pretty. -- Scott Westerfeld
The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us. -- Mario Cuomo
At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Allie noticed it all, every sound, every thought. Her senses had come alive, invigorating her, and she felt her mind drifting through the last few weeks. -- Nicholas Sparks
It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect. -- Richard Branson
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. -- William Howard Taft
I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting. -- Johnny Vegas
I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies. -- Michelle Branch
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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. -- Leo Durocher
The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think. -- Pentti Linkola
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that. -- Leo Tolstoy
Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you. -- Beth Kephart
In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way. -- Ted Yoho
I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth. -- Abby Sunderland
Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds. -- Confucius
You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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. -- Arthur Kroker
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 -- Matsuo Basho
The cunning waste their pains;The wise men vex their brains;But the simpleton, who seeks no gains,With belly full, he wanders freeAs drifting boat upon the sea." -- Cao Xueqin
I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night. There was no answer. Or maybe I just couldn't hear it. -- Jerry Spinelli
It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance. -- George Bernard Shaw
It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing. -- Douglas Hurd
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. -- Graham Hawkes
Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings. -- Sheila Ballantyne
He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight. -- Douglas Adams
Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving forward to gain control of your life. -- Richard G. Scott
The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me. -- James Russell Lowell
Sprigs of plum by the corner of the wall Are blooming alone in the cold; If not for the subtle fragrance drifting over Who could tell this from snow on the boughs. -- Wang Anshi
The more we treasure the words of the prophets and apply them the better we will recognize when we are drifting off course-even if only by a matter of a few degrees. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again. -- Abby Sunderland
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Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally. -- Edwin Arnold
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. -- Albert Einstein
You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself -- Rumi
We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away. -- Bill Simmons
For once desire is articulated in words it does not sit still, but displaces, drifting metonymically from one thing to the next. Desire is a product of language and cannot be satisfied with an object. -- Bruce Fink
When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road. -- Howard Nemerov

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