Drowned Quotes
233 Drowned quotes by 194 unique authors
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And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.
— Robert Jay Lifton
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. I believe you can only do this…
— Oprah Winfrey
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This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the…
— Mark Twain
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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
— William Butler Yeats
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You don't know anything about pain until you've seen your own baby drowned in a tub... and you definitely don't know anything about how to…
— Anthony Jeselnik
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If a piece ofknotted string can unleash the wind and if a drowned man can awaken... then I believe a broken man can heal.
— Annie Proulx
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Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so…
— Frank Abagnale
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One by one I drowned all the people I’d been.
— Conor Oberst
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I have been in danger of being drowned twice.
— John Aubrey
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We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and…
— Hillel the Elder
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The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want to hearken and…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them…
— Martin Luther
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was…
— Val Kilmer
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It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here…
— Richard Posner
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The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of…
— William Stanley Jevons
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You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or…
— Paulo Coelho
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Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup,…
— Omar Khayyam
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E have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for…
— Frederick Douglass
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And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I…
— Yann Martel
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Noah heeded God’s command to build an ark…that they might be saved from the floodwaters. Yet there was no evidence of rain and flood. His…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in a…
— Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
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What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could…
— Osamu Dazai
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Put yourself in Hamlet's shoes. Suppose you were a prince, and you came back from college to discover that your uncle had murdered your father…
— Art Buchwald
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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’…
— Rudyard Kipling
Who Wrote These Drowned Quotes
194 authors contributed a total of 233 Drowned Quotes, led by these top contributors: