Afloat Quotes
63 quotes by 63 authors
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Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm…
— David Byrne
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No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and…
— Robert M. Hensel
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When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then…
— Elbert Hubbard
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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes…
— Anna Quindlen
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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
— Dorothy Parker
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Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat.
— Angie Martinez
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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to…
— Seamus Heaney
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have…
— Jack White
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Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her. I learned long ago that…
— Thomas Andrews
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In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn’t be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to…
— Daniel Tammet
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Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky,…
— Tahereh Mafi
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I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion…
— David Bentley Hart
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Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul... I don't really have words to describe how romantic I find that.…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Brother woke just after midnight and he didn't make a sound, and as he climbed from out of bed with severed rings around his head,…
— Radical Face
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Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance's employees and shareholders will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have become…
— Dhirubhai Ambani
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My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut,…
— Joshua Slocum
Who Wrote These Afloat Quotes
63 authors contributed a total of 63 Afloat Quotes, led by these top contributors: