Floating Quotes

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. (James Baldwin)
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island. View quote
William Blackstone
It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something! View quote
Sally Ride
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream. View quote
Josh Billings
I think when men hear that women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anywhere. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. View quote
Mindy Kaling
At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space. View quote
Natalie Wood
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing. View quote
Christine McVie
I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head. View quote
Dave Grohl
Nothing's gonna stop me from floating. (Tori Amos)
Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, - Outward bound. View quote
Dinah Craik
Round and round, like a dance of snow In a dazzling drift, as its guardians, go Floating the women faded for ages, Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages. View quote
Robert Browning
The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath. View quote
Kalpana Chawla
Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared. View quote
George Mallory
Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me. View quote
David Brin
(opening lines) The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain. View quote
Stephen King
... I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then I thought, perhaps that is what it means to be a [parent] - to teach your child to live without you. View quote
Nicole Krauss
Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies. View quote
Vitruvius
For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating. View quote
Nicolaus Copernicus
Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we make it our duty to practice them, that, if we are suddenly called upon to perform some action of a different order, it takes us by surprise, and without our supposing for a moment that it might involve the bringing of those very same virtues into play. (Marcel Proust)
The attitude of the Church was not as dogmatic as is often assumed. Interpretations of Bible passages had been revised in the light of scientific research before. Everyone regarded the earth as spherical and as freely floating in space though the Bible tells a different story. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities. View quote
Isabel Allende
If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train. View quote
Markus Zusak
She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness. View quote
Markus Zusak