Lifeboat Quotes
30 quotes by 25 authors
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Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But…
— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes…
— Anna Quindlen
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Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted no music at…
— Paul Zollo
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Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I see a real…
— Peter Schiff
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The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who…
— Pentti Linkola
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few pieces. The elements…
— Yann Martel
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If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the baby or the dog?" Regan,…
— Tom Regan
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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.
— Rumi
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Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love
— Jimi Hendrix
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The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain…
— Dave Barry
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and…
— Karen Thompson Walker
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I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school.…
— Brian K. Vaughan
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I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm…
— Daniel Handler
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t…
— Yann Martel
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What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been…
— Margaret Atwood
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Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our…
— Donald Miller
Who Wrote These Lifeboat Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 30 Lifeboat Quotes as follows: