Drifting Away Quotes

• 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

  Drifting Off, Goal, Waste

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• If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, People, Honest

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself

  Mary J. Blige

  I Like You, Looks, Time On Earth

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• I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.

  Michelle Branch

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Ocean

  Song: Drop In The Ocean, Album: The Spirit Room, 2001

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• My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Moving, Fall, Heart

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.14, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'

  Robert Smith

  World, Strange, Left Behind

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians'" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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• We focus on that really repulsive minority of racists. But then there's a continuum that goes all the way to, you know, what used to be called the white backlash or to, you know, the feelings of some white people that they're losing out and that the jobs and power and sort of the culture is drifting away from them and toward people who don't look like them, who don't - who they don't know very well. And that's not necessarily - I don't equate that with the hardcore ideological hatred of self-identified racists.

  George Packer

  Jobs, Self, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly, weight into weightlessness, nowhere to fall. As you lay on your back paddling in space you might notice your feet had fled your head. You are stretching slowly slowly, getting longer, your joints are slipping away from their usual places. There is no connection between your shoulder and your arm. You will break up bone by bone, fractured from who you are, drifting away now, the centre cannot hold.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fall, Law, Two

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• First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further), than the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them exist as well as emerge. But he also moves them about and he invents others, since the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform, or abandon spatial elements.

  Michel de Certeau

  Wall, Moving, Journey

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.98, Univ of California Press

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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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• From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

  Arthur Golden

  Men, Giving, Dancer

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• When characters are drifting away from the "correct road", or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose control, they find other goals...and possibly their real selves. All these moments of changes, of self-questioning, are like an engine to the films I make - that's where lie the dynamics I'm interested in as a director.

  Anne Fontaine

  Real, Lying, Character

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we're drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.

  Billy Collins

  Goes On, Littles, Serious

  "Poet Billy Collins discusses humor, authenticity and ‘Aimless Love’". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. October 29, 2013.

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• The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Church, Poet, Grew

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.111, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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