Drowning Quotes - Page 10

• 9/11 changed everything. We lose more Americans every year drowning in the bathtub than through terrorism. But terrorism has been used as a lever to frighten people, pass legislation, sound tough and coerce us into giving away our rights in pursuit of phantom problems.

  John Dean

  People, Giving, Tough

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When we have a world where you have ISIS chopping off heads, where you have - and, frankly, drowning people in steel cages, where you have wars and horrible, horrible sights all over, where you have so many bad things happening, this is like medieval times. We haven’t seen anything like this, the carnage all over the world.

  Donald Trump

  War, Sight, Isis

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.cbsnews.com. October 10, 2016.

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• Soyinka's Death at Dawn, Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska's Some People come to mind immediately. But there are plenty, plenty more that I enjoy.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Art, People, Mind

  Source: girdblog.com

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• There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel as if I am drowning into the abandonment of death.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Writing, Kind, Abandonment

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist 'peace' to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . .

  Vernon A. Walters

  Years, Sea, People

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• College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Education, Hurt, College

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• Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Reality, Doubt, Language

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• Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Book, Hero

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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• What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose - and stick it in his mouth.

  Douglas Ivester

  Sticks, Mouths, Competitors

  "That’s the Spirit" by Milton Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1997.

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• The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.

  Michael Simkins

  Sea, World, Western

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• Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rivers, Promise, Half

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.59, Macmillan

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• It takes almost no capital to open a new See's candy store. We're drowning in capital of our own that has almost no cost. It would be crazy to franchise stores like some capital-starved pancake house. We like owning our own stores as a matter of quality control.

  Charlie Munger

  Crazy, House, Quality

  Charlie Munger's comments on Wesco and Berkshire Hathaway at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

  St. Jerome

  Swim, Scripture, Drink

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• 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. Its great leverage; we abuse it all the time!

  Matt Barr

  Brother, Ocean, Abuse

  "Meet Hellcats Star Matt Barr!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 26, 2010.

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• Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Teaching, Ties, Intellectual

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.124

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• Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat.

  Robert Collier

  Men, Overwhelming Desire, Air

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• Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sports, Stupid

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

  John Naisbitt

  Running, Acceptance, Keys

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• "The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

  Eva Hart

  People, History, Silence

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• Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim their way to the surface. “Is that why they named you Aphros?” Leo asked as they glided down the path from the cave. “Because of the Afro?” Aphros scowled. “What do you mean?” “Nothing,” Leo said quickly.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Hair, Blue

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• It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.

  Kristin Cashore

  Men, Water, Said

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Never before have I imagined my life without him—like this house, he is my only point of reference in this difficult existence, this unstable and frightening world. The thought of his leaving home fills me with a terror so strong, it takes my breath away. I feel like one of those seagulls covered in oil from a spill, drowning in a black tar of fear.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Strong, Home, Oil

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• If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

  Aesop

  Hair, Water, Wish

  Aesop (1850). “Fables of AEsop and others”, p.300, Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington [and 18 others] ...

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• We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

  Tom Stoppard

  Men, Bricks, Down Time

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.108, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Soul, Firsts, Lips

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)”, p.17, BookBaby

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