Drowned Quotes

233 Drowned quotes by 194 unique authors

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned. — Alan Bradley
Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are wont never to… — Anna Kingsford
Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave. — Unknown Author
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud… — Arthur Koestler
Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup… — Frederic Raphael
I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued… — Jeremy Clarkson
But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs. — Ibn al-Farid
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy. — Joni Mitchell
And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft… — Stephen Vincent Benet
When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man — E E Cummings
[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time… — Zelig Pliskin
Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is… — Unknown Author
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if… — Malcolm Gladwell
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. — Isaac Watts
Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. — Thomas Fuller
The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made… — Jennifer Granholm
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. — Roger Ebert
No one has ever drowned in sweat. — Lou Holtz
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a… — Samuel Johnson
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. — Samuel Johnson
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. — Ann Landers
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by… — Karl A. Menninger
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. — Stephen Sondheim
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon… — William Butler Yeats

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