Drifting Quotes

Sanctions kept us on our toes, it made us realize that we were drifting into a situation of growing isolation so I wouldn't go as far as to say sanctions didn't play a role but if I were to put on a scale, the issues of conscience played a much greater role than the sanctions. We could have withstood sanctions for many more years. We became experts in circumventing sanctions... So sanctions played a role but it wasn't the major role.

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool.

Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.

A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way.

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.

We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.

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

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.

The diplomatic relations start when the two sides get a bit closer to each other, but U.S and Iran, they are drifting apart.

I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.