Drifting Quotes

The world around me then was kind of grim. I had to learn to pretend in order to - I don`t know - block the grimness. The whole world seemed sort of closed to me... (I felt) on the outside of everything, and all I could do was to dream up any kind of pretend game. - on drifting in and out of orphanages when she was little

In 1985 he told the Guardian newspaper that he hoped by the end of his life to have put everything in order -- "a kind of little bow, tied on life. And I can see myself drifting off into eternity, or nothing, or whatever it may be, with all sorts of bits of loose string hanging out of my pocket. Why didn`t I say this or do that, or why didn`t I reconcile myself with someone? Or make sure that someone whom I like was all right in every way, either financially or, I don`t know..."

If I don`t get the service or if I don`t the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

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.

I think I had him perfectly, ... Once Donovan started scrambling, the main thing is to find the guy and lock up on him. It just so happened, T.O., instead of going back to the quarterback, started drifting to the end zone, and I didn`t expect Donovan to get out and scramble because he was injured.

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.

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.

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

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.

We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.

We don`t advise travel at all ... especially with the strong winds, ... In relative terms, it`s going to be a fairly powdery snow, so the strong winds are going to complicate the drifting.

We don`t advise travel at all ... especially with the strong winds. In relative terms, it`s going to be a fairly powdery snow, so the strong winds are going to complicate the drifting.

Matters were drifting. There was a need to take action.

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