Afloat Quotes

63 Afloat quotes by 63 unique authors

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 humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or… — Elizabeth Strout
Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your… — Margaret Atwood
Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports. — Will Eisner
I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am. — Walt Whitman
...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them… — Robert Musil
You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say. — Lauren DeStefano
Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in its feathered embrace.… — Ellen Hopkins
Julius Tallow was a fool. He appeared complacent, but like a weak swimmer out of his depth, his legs were kicking frantically under the surface,… — Jonathan Stroud
I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great… — James Clerk Maxwell
Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept… — Allison Scagliotti

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