#drifting

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#along #america #devices #drifting #fate

He seemed so terribly weak. She would have had more respect for him if he'd told her to go fuck herself. ' I have to go to sleep' she'd scathe. Then she'd roll over, and so would he. They'd be lying there like two strangers who just happened to be sharing the same bed. It was in those moments she began to plot her escape. ↗

— Lucinda Rosenfeld

#drifting-apart #respect

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus. ↗

— Sean Astin

#backward #because #bus #car #courtesy

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#clinging #common #dirt #doom #drifting

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#buildings #drifting #existed #imagine #kind

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#civilization #course #devastating #developed #drifting

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#ball #box #drifting #get #go

This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education. ↗

— Roy Romer

#been #comparison #drifting #education #last

We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do. ↗

— Sean William Scott

#best #drifting #driver #ever #guy

We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us. ↗

— Randall Terry

#country #data #drifting #moving #place