Top 478 Drift Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.
Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.
We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.
Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning
The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.
Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
I'm glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.
Look, my best friend is Xena, Warrior Princess and she is not going to like this forced wedding thing, if you get my drift.
Of course I don't use my A-material, it doesn't matter if they think I'm funny or not because they won't be thinking anything pretty soon anyways, if you caych my drift.
In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
Sometimes in a game - even with the best will in the world - a striker can drift out for 10 minutes and then come back into it.
If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.
When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
Still waters run deep. All things change until we wake. Dreams drift in the wind.
Being in love is a very strange thing. Your thoughts constantly drift towards this other person, no matter what you're doing.
but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game
Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.
I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.
Cirrus sky hawk drift, blue haze in the autumn air, and my mouth is dry.
The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away.
We don't have to wonder or drift with society; the Lord has a very strong and clear pathway of what is right and where blessings come from.
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
Few remember that the battle of Rorke's Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.
I didn't really listen to music when I was doing homework or when I - when I work on a script. I tend to drift to NPR and news.
Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
A wide array of factors can determine just how quickly you'll be able to drift off to sleep when you choose to do so.
Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.
In football you tend to drift away and on to the next job; you bump into someone after two or three years and it's the same as seeing them yesterday.
Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul.
The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift.
When you've sung the same song a million or a hundred thousand times, there are always moments when you drift off and go into automatic.
Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.
Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution?
A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.
Time, like a flurry of wild rain,
Shall drift across the darkened pane!
I was a loner and would constantly find ways to drift away from crowd at social gatherings.
What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?
One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter.
'Pretty Little Liars' - my sister and I read the books, so we stuck to it for the first season, but it started to kind of drift off; so did we.
I probably will not live to see Turkey become an exemplary democracy, but I pray that the downward authoritarian drift can be stopped before it is too late.
The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.
The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.
My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
As a kid, I didn't drift into the comic world too much because I preferred to read fantasies novels and science fiction.
Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.
Every day I wake up in Paris, it's real tranquillity. No pressure. I'm out of the grasp of people. I don't have a phone, and I drift a little bit.
Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.
Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead
We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.
