Drowning Quote by Arthur Baer

We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more…

— Nikita Khrushchev

Religion is as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of a rope

— Anonymous

Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to…

— Thomas Guthrie

Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the…

— S. I. Hayakawa

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…

— Mort Sahl

If you're drowning out in the waters and you can't stay afloat. Ask Hashem for mercy and he'll throw you a rope.

— Matisyahu

The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops…

— Francesca Lia Block

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to…

— Victor Hugo

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

— Ronald Reagan

Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as…

— Mark Udall

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep…

— Alexander Agassiz