The terrible things that happen to us in this life never…

“The terrible things that happen to us in this life never make any sense when we’re in the middle of them, floundering, no end…

— Adriana Trigiani

Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.

— P. T. Barnum

Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses…

— Matt Taibbi

Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt…

— Fred Reed

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk…

— Steve Winwood

“You flounder through life, struggling desperately so you won't drown, even though you would float if you'd just relax.”

— Natsuki Takaya

This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the…

— Ted Hughes

Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Ectoplasmic plane? What the devil is that? (Simone) It’s jargon from those of us who are corporeally challenged. It’s the great beyond where we…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious…

— Billy Graham

I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in…

— Khaled Hosseini

When you're looking at social media, you can tell which people are floundering all over, trying to appeal to everyone.

— Alex Cooper

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

— Kevin Spacey

Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

— Elbert Hubbard