Drowned Quotes
233 quotes by 205 authors
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The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from the Bible can…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.
— Peter De Vries
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As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Coffee as drunk in England, debilitates the stomach, and produces a slight nausea ... it is usually made from bad Coffee, served out tepid and…
— William Kitchiner
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Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your…
— Rajneesh
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My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave vessel is dashed…
— William Shakespeare
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I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like…
— Robert Burns
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
— Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation.
— Kin Hubbard
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The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one…
— Mark Twain
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Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost…
— Sherman Glenn Finesilver
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The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love is his message.…
— Rajneesh
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Being in deep devotion comes as a surprise the first time, because it is so difficult for people to feel even love, and devotion is…
— Rajneesh
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When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a…
— Thomas Dolby
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[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death;…
— Rudolph Rummel
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...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.
— George Monbiot
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But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well…
— James Madison
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Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and…
— Maria Shriver
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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death…
— Charles Dickens
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
Who Wrote These Drowned Quotes
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