Quotes about Drift

Prior to 'Tokyo Drift,' the iconic perception of Asians in Hollywood films has been either the Kung Fu guy, the Yakuza guy or some technical genius. It used to be such a joke, to be laughed at rather than with. Votes: 4

When I did 'Tokyo Drift,' a lot of the philosophy that Han lived by I have actually gone through in my own life. As I got older, I realized that I really believe in those philosophies, like the importance of family. Votes: 4

Drift is the demon of democracy. Votes: 3

Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me. Votes: 3

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths. Votes: 3

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey. Votes: 3

I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it. Votes: 3

No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges. Votes: 3

Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn't do Kung Fu?' Votes: 3

I finished 'Ice Age: Continental Drift' in 2012, and I'm living in my agent's guest bedroom in Los Angeles because you don't make a ton of money writing an animated film. The movie makes a billion dollars, and you make 'twelve cents.' Votes: 3

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness. Votes: 3

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. Votes: 2

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. Votes: 2

Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on. Votes: 2

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. Votes: 2

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. Votes: 2

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. Votes: 2

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. Votes: 2

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. Votes: 2

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us. Votes: 2

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. Votes: 2

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking. Votes: 2

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day. Votes: 2

I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is. Votes: 2

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch. Votes: 2

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch. Votes: 2

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. Votes: 2

For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction. Votes: 2

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. Votes: 2

In my life, there have been people that I was convinced would be around forever, and yet, somehow they managed to drift away after a couple of years. Likewise there have been people who have begun as casual acquaintances but become more important with each passing year. Votes: 2

The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media. Votes: 2

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. Votes: 2

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Votes: 2

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it. Votes: 2

If I could eat whatever I wanted every day, I would have Domino's pizza with pasta carbonara inside every slice. And at night, I would have Neapolitan ice cream until I felt absolutely toxic. And then I would drift off telling myself, 'It's going to be O.K... It's going to be O.K. you're going to train in the morning.' Votes: 2

Even the continents drift. Votes: 0

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift. Votes: 0

I think I drift toward sad love songs. Votes: 0

Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift. Votes: 0

I lay still and watch myself slowly drift apart... Votes: 0

You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness. Votes: 0

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma. Votes: 0

anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay. Votes: 0

If the current is right, one can drift to success. Votes: 0

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times. Votes: 0

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. Votes: 0

There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days Votes: 0

Music helps us drift away to places of tranquility, happiness, sadness, & imagination. Votes: 0

We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there. Votes: 0

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides. Votes: 0

Projects of personal transformation rarely if ever succeed by accident, drift or imposition. Votes: 0

Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path. Votes: 0

YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT! Votes: 0

Time, like a flurry of wild rain, Shall drift across the darkened pane! Votes: 0

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer. Votes: 0

We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds. Votes: 0

I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world. Votes: 0

Cirrus sky hawk drift, blue haze in the autumn air, and my mouth is dry. Votes: 0

Still waters run deep. All things change until we wake. Dreams drift in the wind. Votes: 0

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away. Votes: 0

Unless man anchors the real love, man will always drift in the middle of nowhere! Votes: 0

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am. Votes: 0

What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift. Votes: 0

Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain. Votes: 0

Aren't the clouds beautiful? I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by... Votes: 0

If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view. Votes: 0

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man? Votes: 0

The ashes of the past drift away on the winds of the future. ~ Ryan Mark, Author Votes: 0

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift. Votes: 0

We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time. Votes: 0

I'm glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention. Votes: 0

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. Votes: 0

You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again. Votes: 0

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on. Votes: 0

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift. Votes: 0

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History. Votes: 0

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters. Votes: 0

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead Votes: 0

She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion. Votes: 0

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to. Votes: 0

Plan for the sustainability of your success so that you do not drift back to failure and mediocrity. Votes: 0

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood. Votes: 0

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua. Votes: 0

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. Votes: 0

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better. Votes: 0

The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves. Votes: 0

I drift not because it is a quicker way around a corner, but it is the most exciting way... Votes: 0

What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness? Votes: 0

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos. Votes: 0

The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit. Votes: 0

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift. Votes: 0

Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again. Votes: 0

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. Votes: 0

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.) Votes: 0

Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision. Votes: 0

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination. Votes: 0

If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket. Votes: 0

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars. Votes: 0

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars. Votes: 0

While I was watching you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind as summer clouds drift across the sky. Votes: 0

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away. Votes: 0

Being in love is a very strange thing. Your thoughts constantly drift towards this other person, no matter what you're doing. Votes: 0

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. Votes: 0

Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent. Votes: 0

but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game Votes: 0

If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first. Votes: 0

Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul. Votes: 0

Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away. Votes: 0

The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift. Votes: 0

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. Votes: 0

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. Votes: 0

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent. Votes: 0

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven. Votes: 0

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly. Votes: 0

I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face. Votes: 0

And there's been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. And that's something that we intend to fix - this year. Votes: 0

Every time I drift away I lose myself in you. And now I see I can be me in every thing I do. Votes: 0

Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift. Votes: 0

We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear. Votes: 0

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift. Votes: 0

A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white. Votes: 0

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag. Votes: 0

Look, my best friend is Xena, Warrior Princess and she is not going to like this forced wedding thing, if you get my drift. Votes: 0

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. Votes: 0

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. Votes: 0

You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.' Votes: 0

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink. Votes: 0

We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost. Votes: 0

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate. Votes: 0

Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing. Votes: 0

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. Votes: 0

If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy. Votes: 0

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right? Votes: 0

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us. Votes: 0

Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning Votes: 0

It is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before. Votes: 0

I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is. Votes: 0

I think most couples drift apart because of comparisons. Unfortunately, in our society a perfect match is when the man is more successful than the woman. Votes: 0

But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force. Votes: 0

We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy. Votes: 0

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do. Votes: 0

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us. Votes: 0

Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that's nausea. Votes: 0

Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert Votes: 0

In the summer heat the reapers say, We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair. Votes: 0

I long to drift through turquoise skies;race the wind in rampant flight.Ruddy chains have framed my eyes,they seize my heart and stain the light. Votes: 0

Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments. Votes: 0

But every now and then, when I steal a glance at the Girl, or feel her eyes on me, I helplessly drift back to thinking about her. Votes: 0

How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like. Votes: 0

Excuse me while I light my spliff, Good God I gotta take a lift, From reality I just cant drift, That's why I'm staying with this riff Votes: 0

People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams. Votes: 0

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist. Votes: 0

What if we're all like that? Like ghosts ... in someone's mind ... gradually fading ... fading ... until finally ... one day ... we just disappear ... drift into nothingness. Wouldn't that be sad? Votes: 0

Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world. Votes: 0

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best. Votes: 0

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. Votes: 0

Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift. Votes: 0

In the old world, we tend to drift along, victims to our own ignorance of the fact, that we can have what we want in the New World. Votes: 0

Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine. Votes: 0

Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution? Votes: 0

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it. Votes: 0

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense. Votes: 0

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. Votes: 0

I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander. Votes: 0

The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow. Votes: 0

And the wind blows, the dust clouds darken the desert blue, pale sand and red dust drift across the asphalt trails and tumbleweeds fill the arroyos. Good-bye, come again. (p. 34) Votes: 0

If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained. Votes: 0

In freedom you form in utter disgrace,the bars of my prison this night.While you drift on currents of seraphim heights,it is I who deserve to take flight." Votes: 0

Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift. Votes: 0

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written. Votes: 0

Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies? Votes: 0

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away. Votes: 0

Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown. Votes: 0

They [Republican voters] believe in a foreign policy that puts America first: Give me a break. And so a lot of our drift within our party has gotten away from that. Votes: 0

Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance. Votes: 0

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball. Votes: 0

Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them. Votes: 0

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level. Votes: 0

Pretty Little Liars' - my sister and I read the books, so we stuck to it for the first season, but it started to kind of drift off; so did we. Votes: 0

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know. Votes: 0

Of course I don't use my A-material, it doesn't matter if they think I'm funny or not because they won't be thinking anything pretty soon anyways, if you caych my drift. Votes: 0

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in. Votes: 0

The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations. Votes: 0

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away. Votes: 0

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals. Votes: 0

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again. Votes: 0

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect. Votes: 0

The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man. Votes: 0

It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache. Votes: 0

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart. Votes: 0

I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift and dream like a lazy stream And walk barefoot across sunshine days. Votes: 0

Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift. Votes: 0

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. Votes: 0

To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.. Votes: 0

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so. Votes: 0

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so. Votes: 0

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest. Votes: 0

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways. Votes: 0

A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties. Votes: 0

In this vivid depiction of the wiseguys and poor sods who drift through his flawed hero's bar, Con Lehane also shows us their modest hopes and dreams . . . There are no easy solutions in McNulty's world. Votes: 0

It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you. Votes: 0