Rift Quotes

Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.

I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and look up to the sky and I wouldn't see myself drifting off like some lost balloon. Instead I saw the size of the world and found comfort in its hugeness. I'd think back to those times when I felt like everything was closing in on me, those times when I thought I was stuck, and I realized that I was wrong. There is always hope. The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

It's what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.

You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

In a river mist, if another boat knocks against yours, you might yell at the other fellow to stay clear. But if you notice then, that it's an empty boat, adrift with nobody aboard, you stop yelling. When you discover that all the others are drifting boats, there's no one to yell at. And when you find out you are an empty boat, there's no one to yell.

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

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

We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is what we DO, Or REFUSE TO DO. WE DECIDE and WE CHOOSE--and so we give definition to our lives.

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.

Thrift is of great revenue.

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.

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

Love should be our walk and our talk.