Drowning Quotes - Page 7

• I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

  Tom Waits

  Art, Sound, Annoying

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• The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction - not merely the idea - that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Ideas, Voice, House

  Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.27, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Team, Ocean, Attachment

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• The irrevocable Hand
  That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
  The portals of our earthly destinies;
  We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors
  Close after us, for ever.
  
  Pause, my soul,
  On these strange words - for ever - whose large sound
  Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise
  Our human moans make on the shores of Time.
  O Thou that openest, and no man shuts;
  That shut'st, and no man opens - Thee we wait!

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Destiny, Men, Doors

  "Poems" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("April"), 1859.

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• So we go, so little knowing what we touch and what touches us as we talk! We drop out a common piece of news, "Mr. So-and-so is dead, Miss Such-a-one is married, such a ship has sailed," and lo, on our right hand or on our left, some heart has sunk under the news silently - gone down in the great ocean of Fate, without even a bubble rising to tell its drowning pang. And this - God help us! - is what we call living!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Women, Ocean, Heart

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1859). “The Minister's Wooing”, p.66

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• A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

  Thomas More

  Hope, Men, Clutch

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• It's funny because when Jason [Statham] was drowning I was filming with an iPhone. It may have been a bit insensitive but I just thought, "you know what, this was a magic moment". And I couldn't help him anyway because I didn't want to drown.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Iphone, Magic Moments, Jason

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator.

  David Mitchell

  Love, Grief, Men

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• A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.

  Kate Grenville

  Book, Order, Paper

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• I'm drowning my brother drowning.

  Eva Paterson

  Brother, My Brother

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• Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.

  Mort Sahl

  Night, Feet, Guy

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• He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, Stars, Dark

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• Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.

  Sherman Alexie

  Country, People, Library

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• It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Nice, Diversity, Would Be

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• I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Water, Swim, Stills

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• I'm drowning in papers.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Paper, Papers

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• When we have a world where you have ISIS chopping off heads, where you have frankly drowning people in steel cages, wars and horrible, horrible sights all over, so many bad things happening. We haven't seen anything like this. The carnage all over the world. Can you imagine the people that are frankly doing so well against us with ISIS. And they look at our country and see what's going on. Yes, I'm very embarrassed by it. I hate it.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Hate, War

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• 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

  Water, Black, Despair

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.13, Vintage

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• If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

  Judith Viorst

  True Love, Mother, Save Me

  Judith Viorst (2008). “Grown-Up Marriage: What We Know, Wish We Had Known, and Still Need to Know About Being Married”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Amy Tan (2012). “Saving Fish From Drowning”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

  Amy Tan

  Saving, Pay, Intention

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.125, Penguin

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• Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory??? Graystripe:...Drowning? Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory? Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?

  Erin Hunter

  Territory, Idiot, Rescue

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• Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him

  Michael Chabon

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give.

  Ted Hughes

  Dark, Giving, Dancing

  Ted Hughes (2009). “Birthday Letters”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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• Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that peasant girl a flower. He sort of made up for it by drowning her a few minutes later, but, still, you couldn't look at him the same way again.

  David Sedaris

  Girl, Flower, Evil

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