Drowned Quotes

233 quotes by 194 authors

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors. — Juvenal
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
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
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
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
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
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. — Herman Melville
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 PaviÄ‡
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
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
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
Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or by the pep… — Price Pritchett
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
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
The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine. — Unknown Author
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
A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. — Josephine Tey
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
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
Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned? — C.S. Lewis

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194 authors contributed a total of 233 Drowned Quotes, led by these top contributors: