Drift Quotes

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
Ben Nicholson

Politics, Down, Serious

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
Ben Nicholson

Best, Vision, Earth

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.
Herbert Prochnow

Time, Decision, Choose

If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue.
Virgil Goode

Children, Cannot, Fail

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.
John T. Flynn

Government, Free, Result

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Marjorie Holmes

Great, Moving, Lie

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

Tired, Away, Nothin

I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John... about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought that the moment had passed.
Roger Andrew Taylor

Music, Together, Thought

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
Charles Lyell

Meet, Bones, Valley

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
Don McLean

Around, Off, Stuff

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.
Perry Como

Morning, Off, Ocean

I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
Randy Travis

Music, Lost, Down

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
Georg Trakl

Lives, Shadows, Silver

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
Barney Oliver

Through, Sun, Stars

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

Book, Writing, Away

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