drift quotes

When men fail to drive toward a goal or purpose, but only drift, the drift is always towards barbarism.

- Ronald Wilson Reagan
Quoted in Edmund Morris Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (1999).

But from the first 'twas Peter's drift To be a kind of moral eunuch, He touched the hem of Nature's shift, Felt faintand never dared uplift The closest, all-concealing tunic.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Peter Bell theThird', pt.4, stanza11.