Drowning Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way - of survival of the fittest.

  Ray Kroc

  Dog, Talking, Water

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• There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning.

  Craig Childs

  Two, Desert, Way

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• Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Children, Drinking, Sea

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.111, Open Road Media

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• Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

  Leonard Cohen

  Years, Sea, Shore

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.48, Emblem Editions

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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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• you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?

  Kamala Markandaya

  Men, Speaking Up, Silence

  Kamala Markandaya (2000). “Nectar in a sieve and related readings”

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• Is there a phone I can use? (Talon) In the kitchen. (Sunshine) Could you please bring it to me? (Talon) It’s not cordless. I always lose those things or I drop them someplace and break them. The last one I had ended up drowning in the toilet. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Phones, Kitchen

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• Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

  Erica Jong

  America, Outcomes, Matter

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.9, Penguin

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• Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

  Guillermo del Toro

  Insanity, Insane, Doe

  Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan (2011). “The Night Eternal”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under the water," Po said, "and everything is strange and underwater-sounding, and strange and underwater-looking, you don't miss the air do you? You don't miss the above-water sounds and the above-water look. It's just different." "True." Liesl was quiet for a moment. Then she added, "But I bet you'd miss it if you were drowning. I bet you'd really miss the air then."

  Lauren Oliver

  Swimming, Air, Water

  "Liesl & Po". Book by Lauren Oliver, September 29, 2011.

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• You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Spiritual, Men, May

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Justice, Ifs

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Justice, Charity, Mercy

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• People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

  Idries Shah

  People, Needs, Information

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.11, Octagon Press Ltd

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• 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?

  Caroline Paul

  Running, Baby, Morning

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• Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

  Irving Stone

  Men, People, Generosity

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• If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.

  Abby Sunderland

  Eight, Water, Twenties

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.126, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Football, Dying, Finals

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