Top 478 Drift Quotes & Sayings

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

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those messages are the same, like the pat and thud of two heartbeats, one within you, one surrounding. The message of the lullaby is that it’s okay to dim the eyes for a time, to lose sight of yourself as you sleep and as you grow: if you drift, it says, you’ll drift ashore: if you fall, you will fall into place.

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. Today my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift - a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful.

We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.

What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift.

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds.

Aren't the clouds beautiful? I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by.

You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.

There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days

I go to bed at 9:30 P.M. and I like to watch TV as I drift off.

You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.

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.

'Baazigar' was the movie which initiated my drift towards acting.

Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.

Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; we do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we must self-consciousl y set aside time to do nothing but pray.

Unfortunately, in the entertainment field, sometimes you start believing your celebrity. You have a strong tendency to drift from the Lord, which I did. I did drift for a number of years.

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

Drift is the demon of democracy.

Drift racing is expensive.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

Even the continents drift.

Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.

I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

If I'm relaxing, I'll make a proper cooked breakfast and very slowly drift into the day.

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design. Random genetic drift can't produce wings that are good at flying, or eyes that are good at seeing, or legs that are good at running. But random genetic drift probably is very important in driving evolution at the molecular genetic level.

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

I'd like to drift into Jessica Tandy-type parts.

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

Without 'Annapolis,' I wouldn't have gotten 'Tokyo Drift' - I wouldn't be here today. And, so, it's part of who I am.

We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

I have always had that drift, that's key for me.

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay.

To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.

Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me.

If the current is right, one can drift to success.

You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'