Floating Quotes

394 quotes by 339 authors

When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating. — William Shakespeare
We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like… — Marianne Williamson
Heaven? Floating about with everyone you ever knew for eternity? Me family does me 'ed in after one day at xmas, I'd rather be mush. — Karl Pilkington
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged. — Eugene Walter
Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves. — Oliver Gaspirtz
So if big enough droplets fell far enough fast enough, someone floating right near the metallic hydrogen layer inside Jupiter maybe, just maybe, could have… — Sam Kean
You can indeed be aware of your body, but you can also be aware of your mind - you can right now notice all the… — Ken Wilber
We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath. — Brad Dourif
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles… — Ayn Rand
Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy,… — Cecelia Ahern
Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant memory… — Alfred Worden
A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds… — Cyril Connolly
I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used… — Margaret Atwood
Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence. — Louise Bourgeois
I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself… — Kazuo Ishiguro
American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most… — Susan Sontag
Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just… — Larry Norman
The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an… — Willa Cather
When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what… — Jennifer James

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