Top 22 Rifts Quotes
#1. In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister.
Princess Margaret
#2. The world was full of holes, tiny apertures of meaninglessness, microscopic rifts that the mind could walk through, and once you were on the other side of one of those holes, you were free of yourself, free of your life free of your death, free of everything that belonged to you.
Paul Auster
#3. The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.
Henry David Thoreau
#4. In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.
Salman Rushdie
#5. Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared.
George Leigh Mallory
#6. In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#7. Africa is a land of dreams and memories. It is rifts of remembrance stitched together with the sighs of time.
Deanna Raybourn
#8. Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy.
John Frederick Boyes
#9. I saw the lake of Hali, thin and blank, without a ripple or wind to stir it, and I saw the towers of Carcosa behind the moon. Aldebaran, the Hyades, Alar, Hastur, glided through the cloud-rifts which fluttered and flapped as they passed like the scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow.
Robert W. Chambers
#10. Divine love is rendered conspicuous when it shines in the midst of judgments. Fair is that lone star which smiles through the rifts of the thunder clouds; bright is the oasis which blooms in the wilderness of sand; so fair and so bright is love in the midst of wrath.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#11. There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#12. There were occasionally
rifts in the cloud where the face
of a woman appeared, frowning.
Frank O'Hara
#13. Useless, idle, exploitative male chauvinist drone!
Sue Limb
#14. At length, she lay beside him like a burden laid down at evening which must be picked up once more in the morning.
James Baldwin
#15. Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.
John Shadegg
#16. I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.
Dan Fogelberg
#17. The most obvious feature of the brain is that it is not homogeneous, but composed of different regions. There are no intrinsic moving parts, no obvious way of knowing where to start to understand what is actually happening, or what functions are taking place.
Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
#18. My mind is a dangerous place to be alone without supervision.
Caroline Burau
#21. He'd chosen his weapon well: only the truth, untempered by kindness.
Maggie Stiefvater
#22. I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.
Althea Gibson
