Drowning Man Quotes
28 quotes by 25 authors
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager,…
— Robert Collier
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I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
— Arthur Baer
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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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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…
— Sandra Thomas
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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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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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You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but…
— Robert Greene
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning…
— Dick Van Dyke
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him,…
— Anais Nin
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The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the…
— O. Henry
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The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give…
— C.S. Lewis
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No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop;...
— Nicholas Sparks
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Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be…
— Terry Goodkind
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He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.
— Amanda Hocking
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…You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without…
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
— Tom Stoppard
Who Wrote These Drowning Man Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 28 Drowning Man Quotes as follows: