#drifting

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

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

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

It was one of those things they keep in a jar in the tent of a sideshow on the outskirts of a little, drowsy town. One of those pale things drifting in alcohol plasma, forever dreaming and circling, with its peeled, dead eyes staring out at you and never seeing you. It went with the noiselessness of late night, and only the crickets chirping, the frogs sobbing off in the moist swampland. One of those things in a big jar that makes your stomach jump as it does when you see a preserved arm in a laboratory vat. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#drifting #jar #jars #noiselessness #pale

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

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

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace. ↗

— Paul Virilio

#civic #decline #drifting #effectiveness #fall

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground. ↗

— Ralph Marston

#also #away #day #drifting #every

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#driven #end #ever #sail #sphere