Quotes with drifting

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• If first you rid yourself of hope and fear
  You have dismayed the tyrant's wrath:
  But whosoever quakes in fear or hope,
  Drifting and losing his mastery,
  Has cast away his shield, has left his place,
  And binds the chain with which he will be bound.

  De Consolatione Philosophia

  Boethius
  Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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• Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

  Carl Sandburg
  American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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• 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.

  Elizabeth Hardwick
  American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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• The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.

  Alva Myrdal
  Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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• We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.

  Bill Simmons
  American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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• We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

  Pensees

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• extermination
• civilization
• uncertainty
• developed
• offensive
• northern

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