#drift

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

#asked #belief #drifting #except #fifties

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story. ↗

— John Hench

#attention #bad #bad taste #because #best

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#anchor #drift #lie #must #port

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#depends #dimension #done #drifting #grow

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#asleep #away #childish #come #day

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

#blame #direction #drifting #drifts #get

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

#continents #deadly #drifting #edges #forward