Drifting Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Taken, Sunny Afternoon, Belief

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• 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

  Team, Important, Trying

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• 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

  Civilization, People, Target

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

  Paul Virilio

  Fall, Science, Aggravation

  Paul Virilio (2005). “The Information Bomb”, p.2, Verso

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• 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

  Music, Drifting Off, Kind

  "Bob Dylan Sounds Off On The Origin Of His New Record, Parlor Music, Dr. Dre, And Who His Songs Are About". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

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• One boy's footprints are not long in being lost in the snow, in the steadily falling snow of the shortest day, the longest night; they are lost as soon as they are made. And once again the heath is clothed in drifting white. And there is no ghost, save the one ghost that lives in the heart of a motherless boy, till his footprints disappear.

  Halldór Laxness

  Fall, Heart, Boys

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• All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone’s always too busy. They’re too talented, their schedules are too full. They’re too interested in themselves to think about what’s fair.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Patience, Eye

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• The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

  Nick Tosches

  Short Life, Life Is Short, Friends Come And Go

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• Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Tired, Entering

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

  Bram Stoker

  Anchors

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula (Fidia Classics)”, p.299, Bram Stoker

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• I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself. Some of our most interesting illuminations and ideas will come when we take time to reflect, time to kick back and cruise awhile.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Believe, Reflection, Illumination

  Rudolfo Anaya (2015). “The Essays”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world's problems.

  Robert Benchley

  Believe, Men, Numbers

  Robert Benchley (1954). “The Benchley Roundup”

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• 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

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Ocean

  Song: Drop In The Ocean, Album: The Spirit Room, 2001

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• We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky.

  Mooji

  Clouds, Sky, Play

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• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  Eye, Giving, Balls

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• 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

  Opposites, Blame, Sometimes

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• 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

  Moving, Land, Garbage

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• 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

  Country, Moving, Data

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• 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.

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowledge, Past, Thinking

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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

  George Lucas

  Losing, Concepts

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• 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

  Ocean, Broken, Capes

  "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

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• Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

  Annie Besant

  Yoga, Applied Science, Dreamy

  Annie Besant (2016). “The Nature and Practice of Yoga”, p.13, BookRix

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• From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

  Arthur Golden

  Men, Giving, Dancer

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• The thing is, that when you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.

  Kate Jacobs

  Attitude, Opportunity, Thinking

  Kate Jacobs (2012). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.47, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Drifting Off, Degrees, Treasure

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