Lifeboats Quotes
41 quotes by 35 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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The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.
— Jean Kerr
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The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.
— Nigel Farage
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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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The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.
— Fred Allen
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This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my own to drown…
— Tahereh Mafi
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The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was…
— Carrie Fisher
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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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The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.
— Vance Havner
Who Wrote These Lifeboats Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 41 Lifeboats Quotes, led by these top contributors: