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Letter "D" » drift
«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.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
asylum, Country Life, drift, insane asylum, unable
«To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.»
«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.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
drift, pilot, steer, The Philosopher
«Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
alone, broken, Burns, confining, destruction, drift, drifted, drifts, either, flame, flamed, force, held, In Flames, mid, or else, passion, rudder, ruling, rulings, sails, seas, sea a, standstill, toss, tosses, tossing, toss in, toss out, Toss Up, unattended
«The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.»
«The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.»
«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»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
drift, drifted, persuade, worlds
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