Afloat Quotes

63 quotes by 63 authors

Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown.… — Tim Tharp
The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not… — Stephen King
I`d rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else — Shahrukh Khan
God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And… — Michael Leunig
I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I… — Steven Soderbergh
To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger. — Nelson Mandela
A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but… — Orison Swett Marden
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to… — Georges Duhamel
The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms,… — Sarah Bernhardt
Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free… — Jonathan Raban
I do know that all of the Michigan delegation worked very hard as related to the revival of the auto industry. There was really a… — Fred Upton
I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the… — D. H. Lawrence
For me, I was literally trying to stay afloat. I never actually thought I would get my own sketch show. So the idea that one… — Nick Kroll
I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present [themselves], they… — Ester Dean
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. — Eric Hoffer
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. — Audre Lorde
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life… — William Shakespeare
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking… — Elizabeth Gilbert
in skies of deepening blue the moon, heaven's queen was now afloat — Colm Toibin
I am enthusiastic over humanityâ€™s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano… — R. Buckminster Fuller

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