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Vision sees the stars; mission carves the path to reach them. Vision without a purposeful mission is a ship without a compass, drifting aimlessly in the sea of aspirations. – Aloo Denish Obiero	added by Aloo-Denish 4 months ago
Vision sees the stars; mission carves the path to reach them. Vision without a purposeful mission is a ship without a compass, drifting aimlessly in the sea of aspirations. – Aloo Denish Obiero	added by Aloo-Denish 4 months ago
Vision without a purposeful mission is a ship without a compass, drifting aimlessly in the sea of aspirations. – Aloo Denish Obiero	added by Aloo-Denish 4 months ago
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people. – H. G. Wells	added by Normando 1 year ago
His calm and gentle tone was like an anchor in a ferocious sea, keeping me from drifting into a current of heartache. – unknown	added by unochickie 1 year ago
Ashes keep drifting onto my paper, charcoal snowflakes on a minefield of blanks, words bouncing around off each other uttering impotent images of sight sound terror life crying for recognition, narcissistic eunuchs reflecting my face, ruining the snowfield. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
We’re certainly drifting back to the Fear City days of the ‘80s and early ’90s before Rudy Giuliani was elected mayor and turned all that around with quality-of-life initiatives, zero tolerance and utilizing the broken windows theory. – Republican Party	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It would be speculation to say at this point, there are a lot of currents on the lake that get up here, particularly in the afternoon. We believe it was mid-afternoon when Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP disappeared. The idea of perhaps being that the boat started drifting, it was unanchored, and that Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP mustered enough energy to get Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP son back onto the boat, but not enough to save Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP. – Bill Ayub	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Next to the habit of drifting, the most dangerous human trait is the lack of caution. – Napolean Hill	added by Mattd6422 4 years ago
We never asked for this fight but we are steadfastly committed to seeing it through, we Americans are not made of cotton candy. We’re not seaweed drifting in the current. We are not intimidated by our enemies. – Jim Mattis	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
What’s happening right now with other brands is an insidious disease called brand drift, these places get new CEOs and new owners with their own ideas who don’t appreciate or respect the culture and components that made these brands highfliers at one time. We’re taking dead aim at Outback Steakhouse because I think their brand is drifting. People are tired of the Bloomin’ Onion. They’re looking for something else in a value-priced steakhouse. – Paul Mangiamele	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The ECB and OPEC meetings could prove to be a damp squib, which may result in markets drifting a bit lower. – Terry Torrison	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
(The government) has become too focused on narrowly getting the deficit down without being able to say where that should fall other than simply on those who I think can less afford to have that fall on them, i think it is in danger of drifting in a direction that divides society rather than unites it, and that I think is unfair. – David Cameron	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
That's creating a lot of blowing and drifting snow and creating very hazardous travel conditions. – Chuck Schaffer	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If the Fed tightens, it will be due to the fact that they have a perception that inflation is drifting up, but more important that unemployment is falling and the economy is recovering, for us, that is very good news. – Agustin Carstens	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Unfortunately there are thousands of young men like (Roof) who are looking for an identity larger than themselves, we've seen a drifting away from organized white supremacy and the prevalence of lone wolf attacks. – Richard Cohen	Found on CNN 8 years ago
What we're hearing from these people is that they've been stuck out at sea for weeks and months and then the smugglers just deserted them, left them with very little food and water, no fuel for the engines, so they're drifting. – Jeffrey Savage	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This market is somewhere between trying to decide the interest rate, oil, dollar question while we await earnings. There's no real earnings out to give it any footing. It's just been drifting back and forth. – Rick Meckler	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The notion of ghost ships drifting on autopilot toward the coasts of Europe in the hopes that coast guards will rescue the people on board and the hideous sight of men and women tearing their flesh on barbed-wire fences in a desperate, and sometimes lethal, attempt to clamber into Europe and find a better, more peaceful life: Such scenes are simply intolerable. – Zeid Raad al-Hussein	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared. – E. H. Chapin	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Vision sees the stars; mission carves the path to reach them. Vision without a purposeful mission is a ship without a compass, drifting aimlessly in the sea of aspirations.

– Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
4 months ago

Vision sees the stars; mission carves the path to reach them. Vision without a purposeful mission is a ship without a compass, drifting aimlessly in the sea of aspirations.

– Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
4 months ago

Vision without a purposeful mission is a ship without a compass, drifting aimlessly in the sea of aspirations.

– Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
4 months ago

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

– H. G. Wells

added by Normando
1 year ago

His calm and gentle tone was like an anchor in a ferocious sea, keeping me from drifting into a current of heartache.

– unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

Ashes keep drifting onto my paper, charcoal snowflakes on a minefield of blanks, words bouncing around off each other uttering impotent images of sight sound terror life crying for recognition, narcissistic eunuchs reflecting my face, ruining the snowfield.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

We’re certainly drifting back to the Fear City days of the ‘80s and early ’90s before Rudy Giuliani was elected mayor and turned all that around with quality-of-life initiatives, zero tolerance and utilizing the broken windows theory.

– Republican Party

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It would be speculation to say at this point, there are a lot of currents on the lake that get up here, particularly in the afternoon. We believe it was mid-afternoon when Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP disappeared. The idea of perhaps being that the boat started drifting, it was unanchored, and that Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP mustered enough energy to get Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP son back onto the boat, but not enough to save Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP.

– Bill Ayub

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Next to the habit of drifting, the most dangerous human trait is the lack of caution.

– Napolean Hill

added by Mattd6422
4 years ago

We never asked for this fight but we are steadfastly committed to seeing it through, we Americans are not made of cotton candy. We’re not seaweed drifting in the current. We are not intimidated by our enemies.

– Jim Mattis

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

What’s happening right now with other brands is an insidious disease called brand drift, these places get new CEOs and new owners with their own ideas who don’t appreciate or respect the culture and components that made these brands highfliers at one time. We’re taking dead aim at Outback Steakhouse because I think their brand is drifting. People are tired of the Bloomin’ Onion. They’re looking for something else in a value-priced steakhouse.

– Paul Mangiamele

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The ECB and OPEC meetings could prove to be a damp squib, which may result in markets drifting a bit lower.

– Terry Torrison

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

(The government) has become too focused on narrowly getting the deficit down without being able to say where that should fall other than simply on those who I think can less afford to have that fall on them, i think it is in danger of drifting in a direction that divides society rather than unites it, and that I think is unfair.

– David Cameron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That's creating a lot of blowing and drifting snow and creating very hazardous travel conditions.

– Chuck Schaffer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If the Fed tightens, it will be due to the fact that they have a perception that inflation is drifting up, but more important that unemployment is falling and the economy is recovering, for us, that is very good news.

– Agustin Carstens

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Unfortunately there are thousands of young men like (Roof) who are looking for an identity larger than themselves, we've seen a drifting away from organized white supremacy and the prevalence of lone wolf attacks.

– Richard Cohen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What we're hearing from these people is that they've been stuck out at sea for weeks and months and then the smugglers just deserted them, left them with very little food and water, no fuel for the engines, so they're drifting.

– Jeffrey Savage

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This market is somewhere between trying to decide the interest rate, oil, dollar question while we await earnings. There's no real earnings out to give it any footing. It's just been drifting back and forth.

– Rick Meckler

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The notion of ghost ships drifting on autopilot toward the coasts of Europe in the hopes that coast guards will rescue the people on board and the hideous sight of men and women tearing their flesh on barbed-wire fences in a desperate, and sometimes lethal, attempt to clamber into Europe and find a better, more peaceful life: Such scenes are simply intolerable.

– Zeid Raad al-Hussein

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

– E. H. Chapin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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