Drowning Quotes - Page 12

• Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.

  Milos Forman

  Littles, Twigs, Wells

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• A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

  Julie Schumacher

  Rescue, Persons

  Julie Schumacher (2008). “Black Box”, p.116, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia. ... he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Horse, Kings, Government

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• We should not laugh at the person who becoming caught up in his prayer bends his body or moves about in strange ways. Perhaps he moves in this manner to wave off unwelcome thoughts that would interrupt the prayer. Would we find it funny if we saw a person drowning going through strange motions doing whatever was necessary to save his life?

  Baal Shem Tov

  Prayer, Moving, Laughing

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• You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

  Margaret Atwood

  Heartbreak, Love You, Scream

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• Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

  Michael Crichton

  Fear, Stupid, Men

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.”

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• The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Anxiety, Half, Neurotic

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Self, Burning

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful, the unhappiness of many people is very great, and I often wonder how they all endure it. It is usually the central thing around which their lives are built, and I suppose if they did not live most of their lives in the things of the moment, they would not be able to go on.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Ocean, Night

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• People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Helping Others, People, Faults

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• My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

  James Badge Dale

  Actors, Television, Young

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• I'm drowning in whiskey river.

  Willie Nelson

  Rivers, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Whiskey River

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• Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

  Tom Hardy

  Buddhist, Floating, Rescue

  "Tom Hardy: 'It's a normal human impulse to watch two people kick the hell out of each other'". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.

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• You ain't no Hepburn and I ain't no Fonda, but if you were drowning in Golden Ponda, mouth to mouth I'd resuscitate you.

  Alice Cooper

  Mouths, Golden, Endearment

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• Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Kids, Media, Tvs

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• She was drowning-in friendliness, in community-and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.

  Tricia Goyer

  Thinking, Community, Want

  FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Jan 26, 2014

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• The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Esteem, Humility, Hands

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When you're standing in deep water
  And you're bailing yourself out with a straw
  And when you're drowning in deep water
  And you wake up making love to a wall
  Well it's these little time that help to remind
  It's nothing without love, love, love

  Jewel

  Song, Wall, Deep Water

  Song: Deep Water, Album: Spirit, 1998

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• No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.

  Ann Landers

  Sweat, Persons, Died

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• A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

  James M. Cain

  Gun, Men, Haste

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• We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Reality, Ideas

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• In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Dog, Years, Whales

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• Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Stars, War

  Pablo Neruda (1974). “Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)”, p.209, Grove Press

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• There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

  J. L. Austin

  Cat, Way, Speech

  "How to Do Things with Words". Book by J. L. Austin, p. 48, 1975.

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• 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.

  Phil Vischer

  Second Chance, Whales, Punishment

  "Behind the Scenes: Jonah and the Bible". "Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie", 2002.

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