Drowned Quotes
233 quotes by 194 authors
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Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
— Juvenal
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I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful…
— Jonathan Swift
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On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that…
— Unknown Author
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Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions,…
— Antony C. Sutton
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It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the…
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky…
— Dan Quayle
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The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.
— Herman Melville
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And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it…
— Milorad Pavić
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People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning…
— Neil Gaiman
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The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In…
— Samuel Marinus Zwemer
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I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or by the pep…
— Price Pritchett
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O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load…
— Unknown Author
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Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released,…
— Gautama Buddha
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The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.
— Unknown Author
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A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.
— John Millington Synge
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A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.
— Josephine Tey
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Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over their foolish behaviour is tantamount to denouncing fire, which is a vital and…
— Christine de Pizan
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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm…
— Sam Neill
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Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Drowned Quotes
194 authors contributed a total of 233 Drowned Quotes, led by these top contributors: