Drifting Quotes - Page 3

• The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Men, Order

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.404, Penguin

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• Tomándola de la mano, la condujo a una amplia extensión de duro suelo arenoso que la luna inundaba con gran esplendor. Flotaron como polillas a la deriva bajo la rica luz brumosa, y mientras la fantástica sinfonía lloraba y se exultaba y vacilaba y se desesperaba, el último sentido de realidad de Ardita se desvaneció, y abandonó su imaginación a los soñadores olores veraniegos de las flores tropicales y a los infinitos espacios estrellados en lo alto, sintiendo que si abría los ojos sería para encontrarse bailando con un fantasma en una tierra creada por su propia fantasía.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer, Flower, Eye

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.1640, e-artnow

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• Sigo sin tener miedo a los aviones después del 11-S. Pero durante un viaje a Los Ángeles en un Boeing 767, no pude evitar que mi mente divagara: ¿Cuál es la pieza más grande de este avión que podría estrellarse contra el World Trade Center, explotar por el otro lado y sobrevivir intacta? ¿El tren de aterrizaje? ¿La batería de mi ordenador? ¿La hebilla de mi cinturón? ¿Mi anillo de boda?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Avión, Sin Miedo, Mente

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• If I'm improvising and I'm not doing well it's because I'm not listening very well. Either I'm overly concerned with something or I'm drifting or maybe I'm too stoned but I'm not getting a clear signal.

  Reggie Watts

  Listening, Signals, Clear

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Stars, Tree, Atoms

  Alan Dean Foster (2013). “Glory Lane”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• El público es invisible y eso es bueno. En algún lugar, mi voz recorre un establo de cerdos y su sonido parece despertar el apetito de las cerdas. O una señora me escucha con los auriculares mientras corre por la playa al ritmo de mi cadencia. O un perro se sienta frente a la radio, con la cabeza ladeada, y las sibilantes le excitan de algún modo misterioso. Un humorista de perros, ese soy yo.

  Garrison Keillor

  Running, Dog, Beach

  Fuente: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30)

  Craig Silvey

  World, Paper, Weight

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• Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Simple, Clouds, People

  "Memento Mori". Libro de Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. 2000.

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• ...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span.

  James Patterson

  Row Boats, Boat, Life Span

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• Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting throught the wind, wanting to start again. Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin, like a house of cards, one blow from caving in.

  Katy Perry

  Blow, House Of Cards, Wind

  "Song: "Firework" (Album: "Teenage Dream")". 2010.

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• ... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.

  Adrienne Rich

  Philosophy, Past, Wind

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Las nubes se deslizaban sobre la luna a su velocidad más vertiginosa, a veces oscureciéndola por completo, a veces permitiéndole brillar en todo su esplendor y derramar su luz sobre todos los objetos que la rodeaban; más tarde, volvían a pasar por encima de ella a mayor velocidad, envolviéndolo todo en la oscuridad.

  Charles Dickens

  Naturaleza, Luna, Nubes

  Charles Dickens (1872). "Obras

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• It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the ruin, if women had the "power"; if political leadership, decision making, government and economic life was in the hands of women. I think reality, the observation material, supports the assumption.

  Pentti Linkola

  Reality, Thinking, Government

  "Women As The Protectors Of Life II". Essay by Pentti Linkola, 1996.

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• Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

  Jo Nesbo

  Morning, Ideas, Mind

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• It was one of those times when you can feel the air in a room. Everything stood still. I can remember the T-shirt I was wearing and the bag I was carrying. I don't think I breathed for 15 minutes. It was a devastating moment. They said they wanted me to experience more things. OK. I began contemplating things. Maybe I should take LSD or become a hooker. I left Juilliard and was just meandering and drifting for a while. Thank God I had support from my family and close friends. Bad times.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  Pensar, Aire, Apoyo

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• The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters.

  Charles Dickens

  Sleep, Men, Wind

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.202

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• En su mayor parte, los seres humanos vivimos con la falsa impresión de seguridad y la sensación de sentirnos como en casa en un entorno físico y humano aparentemente familiar y digno de confianza. Pero cuando se interrumpe el curso esperado de la vida cotidiana, nos damos cuenta de que somos como náufragos que intentan mantener el equilibrio sobre una miserable tabla en alta mar, habiendo olvidado de dónde vienen y sin saber si van a la deriva. Pero una vez que lo aceptamos plenamente, la vida se vuelve más fácil y ya no hay decepción.

  Albert Einstein

  Disappointment, Home, Sea

  "Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives". Book by Albert Einstein, p. 72, 1979.

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• The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fighting, Moon, Sea

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.8

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• La mañana gotea su rocío para mí, el mediodía extiende un dosel de ópalo. En casa, las nubes a la deriva descansan Donde la puesta de sol ambers todo el oeste ...

  Robert Loveman

  Morning, Home, Sunset

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• In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.

  Ted Yoho

  País, Años, Gente

  "Upset winner isn't horsing around" by Kate Nocera, www.politico.com. August 26, 2012.

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• I think you have a deeply anxious leadership in China that knows its legitimacy is drifting away, that’s sending its [personal] money and its children abroad because they have no faith in the future of their own regime.

  Larry Diamond

  Children, Thinking, Legitimacy

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• Humildemente agradezco a los dioses benignos, Por todas las bendiciones que son mías... La mañana gotea su rocío para mí, el mediodía extiende un dosel de ópalo. En casa, las nubes a la deriva descansan Donde la puesta de sol ambers todo el oeste; Suave sobre los campos de amapolas del sueño, Los vientos somnolientos del país de los sueños se arrastran. Qué cosas tan ociosas son la riqueza y la fama ¡Al lado de los tesoros que uno podría nombrar!

  Robert Loveman

  Gratitude, Morning, Sunset

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• Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you.

  Denise Linn

  Ocean, Flower, Butterfly

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• When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Heart, Sleep

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• Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.

  Edwin Arnold

  Men, Sea, Driftwood

  Edwin Arnold (2015). “Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…”, p.497, e-artnow

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