Drowned Quotes

233 Drowned quotes by 194 unique authors

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
Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet. — Woody Hayes
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a… — Raoul Vaneigem
The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing. They… — Unknown Author
Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy brain I used… — Merrill Markoe
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned… — Robert B. Laughlin
There were some days that deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates… — Diana Pharaoh Francis
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. — Harold Rosenberg
Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied… — Alister E. McGrath
We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be… — Dean Ornish
When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the… — Barney Frank

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