Drowning Quotes - page 2

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives. (Nancy Mitford)
A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself. View quote
Watchman Nee
My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange. View quote
Florence Welch
Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby in the morning, save a drowning surfer in the afternoon, and run into a fire at night. What could be more interesting than that? View quote
Caroline Paul
I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times! View quote
Jonathan Banks
My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It's great leverage; we abuse it all the time! View quote
Matt Barr
I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it. View quote
Sherri Shepherd
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. View quote
Tahar Ben Jelloun
When you're drowning you don't think, You just scream. View quote
John Lennon
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. View quote
John Lennon
The next higher level is to work, fight, and sometimes die for your own immediate family. This is the level at which six pounds of mother cat can be so fierce that she'll drive off a police dog. It is the level at which a father takes a moonlighting job to keep his kids in college - and the level at which a mother or father dives into a flood to save a drowning child ... and it is still moral behavior even when it fails. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance. View quote
Phil Vischer
We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Well, if you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand. I've seen your face before my friend But I don't know if you know who I am. Well, I was there and I saw what you did I saw it with my own two eyes. So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been. It's all been a pack of lies. View quote
Phil Collins
For it is this cultural revolution that has led to just such a "profound modification in the ideas" of peoples. And those ideas have made Western elites apparently indifferent to the death of their civilization. They do not seem to care if the end of the West comes by depopulation, by a surrender of nationhood, or by drowning in waves of Third World immigration. View quote
Pat Buchanan
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality. View quote
Irena Sendler
She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike. View quote
Jack Kerouac
If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. View quote
Simon Cowell
hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself. View quote
Robert Jordan
Life isn't binary - and neither is politics. If you are adrift in the ocean, your enemy isn't just sharks; it's thirst, hunger, drowning, and despair itself. If you face your predicament assuming the only thing you have to worry about is being eaten by a shark, you might fend off the sharks, but you will also probably die. Indeed, by ignoring other threats, you'd probably make yourself more vulnerable to a shark attack. (Jonah Goldberg)
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves. View quote
O. Henry
Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. View quote
L. Neil Smith
Rhyme, the rack of finest wits, That expresseth but by fits, True conceit, Spoiling senses of their treasure, Cozening judgement with a measure, But false weight. Wresting words from their true calling; Propping verse, for fear of falling To the ground. Jointing syllables, drowning letters, Fastening vowels, as with fetters They were bound! View quote
Ben Jonson
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. View quote
Billy Bob Thornton