Drowning Quotes
346 quotes by 279 authors
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All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what…
— Monique Truong
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So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into…
— William Barclay
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...it was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm.
— Paulo Coelho
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We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.
— Jentezen Franklin
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And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick…
— Hart Crane
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I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little…
— Unknown Author
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Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their…
— Dalai Lama
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The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a…
— George Ohsawa
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Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece…
— Nick Flynn
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My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company.... A drowning man is not separated from the…
— Michael Dorris
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Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to…
— Jon Foreman
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When you’re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, you’re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face…
— Unknown Author
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I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For…
— Joseph Conrad
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Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.
— Amy Lowell
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If you come upon a person who is drowning, would you ask if they need help—or would it be better to just jump in and…
— Ronald A. Rasband
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No matter how hard it gets, I’d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss
— Chino XL
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Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students,…
— Ron Suskind
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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.
— Tori Amos
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Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.
— Hari Kondabolu
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Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we…
— Jacob Needleman
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