Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.
I talked to one accountant, a very nice fellow who I would have been glad to have his family marry into mine. He said, "What these other accounting firms have done is very unethical. The [tax avoidance scheme] works best if it's not found out [by the IRS], so we only give it to our best clients, not the rest, so it's unlikely to be discovered. So my firm is better than the others. " [Laughter] I'm not kidding. And he was a perfectly nice man. People just follow the crowd. . . Their mind just drifts off in a ghastly way.
Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters. '
It's okay that the mind drifts away but you just bring it back.
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.
This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.
Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough.
It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.
As the United States drifts from its Judeo-Christian foundation and as the state becomes ever more pervasive in American life, government could ultimately insist on full allegiance from the people, an allegiance belonging only to God.
The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened into a little trouty pool, then ran on through water meadows over graveled shallows into Fakenham [England], where it slowed and deepened, gathering strength for the long drifts across muddy flatlands to Norwich and the North Sea.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.
Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.
The Planet drifts to random insect doom.