Quotes of: Adrift Keyword

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.

The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on their motivation and their connectedness with the real world.

Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result.

Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

Francis Parker Yockey

Darkness I find myself set upon a ship of fools and cast adrift. Adrift in sea of madness, steaming towards a storm of uncertainty. Overboard, swirling, twirling tumbling. Engulfed in madness. Shipwrecked, marooned. Washed upon a rock of hope. Darkne...

Michael Tianias

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

Walter Mosley

Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary to treat them with respect, for they were the intermediaries between oneself and the rest of creation. To abu...

Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Dorothy Day

You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

Reflections

Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?

Elisabeth Elliot

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.'

King Krule

I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.

Robert Smith

The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

The Shadow of the Wind

On getting lost in a book. Set adrift A life unknown Connections form Love is sewn

An Unlikely Arrangement

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

Richard Halliburton

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

Julianna Baggott

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.

Jon Voight

A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

Fredrik Bajer

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Georges Duhamel

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.

Andrew O'Hagan

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

Colin Firth