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If your dreams seem to be drifting away, wake up! -- Benny Bellamacina
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
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
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
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 poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
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
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. -- Billy Collins
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The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence. -- Peter Senge
There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away. -- James Dickey
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' -- William Butler Yeats
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination. -- Terry Brooks
I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it. -- Nathalie Kelley
Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it. -- Eddie Trunk
Africa, and Zambia in particular, drifted away from the West for a long time, and we have to reconcile. -- Michael Sata
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
Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. -- Tomas Transtromer
It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it. -- Jon McGregor
I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander. -- Howard Schultz
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. -- Roy Orbison
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. -- Irving Babbitt
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
Dr. Kaunda, although he was running a one-party state, was very close to the West, and that is why he achieved as much as he did. But we drifted away from the West to look for new friends. -- Michael Sata
You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.' -- Jarvis Cocker

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