Sifts Quotes

#1. Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.

Rumi

#2. An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Sholem Asch

#3. As every entrepreneur and investor sifts through year-end data to predict the next trend or opportunity for financial success, there is a much easier way to accurately predict the future: hang out with those who are creating it.

Jay Samit

#4. The freezing rain sifts down, handfuls of shining rice thrown by some unseen celebrant. Wherever it hits, it crystallizes into a granulated coating of ice.

Margaret Atwood

#5. He sifts through all the pebbles until he finds the smoothest one he can, and presents it to her as a token of his love.

Mia Sheridan

#6. Marie-Laure smiles, and he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life, father and daughter turning in circles on the sidewalk in front of their apartment house, laughing together while snow sifts through the branches above.

Anthony Doerr

#7. He sifts the radio waves, but it's all men singing like women and women singing like men ...

David Mitchell

#8. Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts.

Frank Dempster Sherman

#9. War! war! war!
Heaven aid the right!
God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight!
God send the women sleep in the long, long night,
When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no more.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

#10. If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.

Silvia Cartwright

#11. Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish." You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do.

Mark Gorman

#12. Say it,' said Damen. 'I yield.' It was gritted out. Laurent's head turned away to one side. 'I want you to know,' he said, the words thick and heavy as they pushed out of him, 'that I could have done this any time when I was a slave.

C.S. Pacat

#13. When you're really good, NO ONE is competition. NO ONE!

Daylle Deanna Schwartz

#14. If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

Natasha Lyonne

#15. When was the last time you bought an American-made radio or television? If you're Gen X or younger, the answer is 'never.' Does the label on that shirt or skirt you're wearing say 'Made in the U.S.A.'? If so, you probably got it at Goodwill, or maybe at a Smithsonian garage sale.

Seth Shostak

#16. To possess character is to be useful, and to be useful is to be independent, and to be useful and independent, is to be happy, even in the midst of sorrow; for sorrow is not necessarily unhappiness.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#17. The slick bare tar, the same suburban station.

Robert Lowell

#18. Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

Peter Drucker

#19. Oh, merciless freedom, you continue to overwhelm me! You demand that I challenge myself and feel ashamed, and yet continue to feel so outrageously proud to live a life full of my desires.

Nina George

#20. You still owe me a yellow Porsche.

Stephenie Meyer

#21. The mind creates so many temptations - so alluring they are, so magnetic is their power - that unless you are in the power-field of someone whose magnetism is far more powerful than any other kind of temptation, it is impossible to reach. That is the meaning of disciplehood.

Rajneesh

#22. He's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something

Woody Allen