quotes about Drifting
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I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.
-- Alice CarySource : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1850). “Poems of Alice and Phoebe Carey ...”, p.140
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That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
-- Beatrice WebbSource : Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.163, Cambridge University Press
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Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool.
-- Benjamin DaySource : "Fictional character: Benjamin Braddock". "The Graduate", www.imdb.com. 1967.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
-- Bram Stoker -
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We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.
-- Bruce RobinsonSource : Bruce Robinson (2015). “Withnail and I”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing
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A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way.
-- Howard Pyle -
If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.
-- Napoleon Hill -
Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.
-- Sarah Dessen -
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...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.
-- Virginia Gildersleeve -
Sanctions kept us on our toes, it made us realize that we were drifting into a situation of growing isolation so I wouldn't go as far as to say sanctions didn't play a role but if I were to put on a scale, the issues of conscience played a much greater role than the sanctions. We could have withstood sanctions for many more years. We became experts in circumventing sanctions... So sanctions played a role but it wasn't the major role.
-- Frederik Willem de KlerkSource : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com