Foundering Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established .…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants…
— Keri Hulme
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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
— B. C. Forbes
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I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering.
— Mary Crosby
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Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out…
— Cornelia Funke
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Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful,…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the…
— Terry Eagleton
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God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the…
— William S. Burroughs
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Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.
— Christopher Hitchens
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War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had…
— Robert Graves
Who Wrote These Foundering Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Foundering Quotes as follows: