Sift Through Quotes

#1. As you sift through this very solid-looking body, you have to go only so far before you end up with a handful of nothing.

Deepak Chopra

#2. When life is going according to plan, we don't stop to question our daily habits ... Maybe it's time to sift through our lives.

Shirley Corder

#3. Choosing from every book ever published seems like a dream, until you're forced to sift through hundreds of thousands of titles on your Kindle, and all the reviews attached to them, hoping to find something good.

David Sax

#4. Years, so many years we'd been friends and sisters . . . and now she was gone. Taking a handful of dirt, I held it over the grave, and let it sift through my fingers. "Be at peace, Milly. Wait for me on the other side, my friend.

Shannon Mayer

#5. The more evolved you are the less you will agree or disagree with others, and the more you will gently sift through the fullness of what people are offering and gratefully take only what you need.

Bryant McGill

#6. In 1906 he and Hulda made the first of several trips to London to sift through the records.

Bill Bryson

#7. He cannot deny a certain relief in being able to sift through academic tomes, fulfilling his journalistic duty without having to barge past security guards at the Arab League or grab man-on-the-street from women at the market. This library work is easily his favorite part of reporting so far.

Tom Rachman

#8. Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.

Evgeny Morozov

#9. While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.

Maria Bartiromo

#10. Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

#11. When Lucas was doing Star Wars, he didn't have a 50 million person Facebook following where he could just sift through feedback to try to get an idea for what he was going to do next. It's a luxury we have today.

Vin Diesel

#12. When I look at my audience, I can tell better who's in the crowd and the kind of joke I shouldn't do. It's just complicated. I guess I sift through to make sure these jokes are a little different with not such a harsh edge to them. That's pretty much how I handle the crowd.

Larry The Cable Guy

#13. Want to inspire your kids to read more? Try giving them kids some money to spend just on a book. Take them to a bookstore and let them browse and pick out one book that they will love. Or try going to a local library for a few hours and just let your kids sift through books that interest them.

Melanie Kirk

#14. I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.

Ayn Rand

#15. We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

Helen Frankenthaler

#16. It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

Erin Morgenstern

#17. My painful memories sift through me like sand through stretched fingers. Only small pieces cling and stay around for me to keep, the rest just disappear. I know not where and I don't

Willow Madison

#18. Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#19. It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.

Mark Hoppus

#20. The Chief believed if you sift through evil, at the very bottom you'll find good. He believed that evil has its limits. Beauvoir didn't. He believed that if you sift through good, you'll find evil. Without borders, without brakes, without limit.

Louise Penny

#21. If one will just be still, shut up, and listen
lo, behold, the world'll sift through one's ideas for one, esp. in a grimy London railway station.

David Mitchell

#22. Sweetie, if love could take away sadness, I'd be the happiest woman on earth. Sometimes the sadness is so deep, we have to sift through all the layers before we can find it and send it packing. That's what I'm trying to do in this place. Find my sadness.

April Young Fritz

#23. Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in front of you without having to sift through a lot of thoughts and theories and, yes, expensive fishing tackle.

John Gierach

#24. I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

Kathryn Hahn

#25. Should you start with a hypothesis and analyze data in a way that supported it, or start with the data and sift through it for a useful hypothesis?

Robert Littell

#26. Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservations, letting its rocklike facts sift through and be accepted only a little at a time, only as much as he could assimilate without a sense of chaos and loss.

John Knowles

#27. When one dream burns to ash, you don't crumble beneath it. You get on your hands and knees, and you sift through those ashes until you find the very last ember, the very last spark. Then you breathe. You breathe. You fucking breathe. And you make a new fire.

Sarah Ockler

#28. It is not unusual to sift
through ashes
and find an unburnt picture

Nikki Giovanni

#29. Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

Arlene Francis

#30. One is that you should never take no for an answer. There is always some way to make a sale if you have confidence in your merchandise. Just because a customer says no doesn't mean he isn't buying. You just have to sift your way through all the rhetoric and get to the heart of the deal. The

Thomas L. Friedman

#31. All this new stuff goes on top
turn it over, turn it over
wait and water down
from the dark bottom
turn it inside out
let it spread through
Sift down even.
Watch it sprout.
A mind like compost.

Gary Snyder

#32. Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#33. Because I believe, even in times of hardship, there's something positive to salvage, even if we have to sift, piece by tattered piece, through the scraps of our trials to find it.

Brenda J. Otto