Raft Quotes
70 quotes by 59 authors
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Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
— Ben Hecht
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I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
— Mark Twain
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Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand…
— David R. Brower
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The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.
— Mark Twain
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Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint", the…
— Chris Rapley
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Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.
— Dorothea Tanning
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These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated…
— Gautama Buddha
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To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the…
— Gautama Buddha
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Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
— Russell B. Long
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We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long…
— Jack Kornfield
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Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves…
— Douglas Preston
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On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came…
— Lee Smolin
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I'm 5 foot 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and…
— Marie Windsor
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...Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you;…
— Guru Nanak
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The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the…
— Virginia Woolf
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People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were…
— Louis Zamperini
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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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A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft…
— Fisher Ames
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When you believe God is who he says he is, when you hang onto him and his Word in faith, his truth sets you free.6…
— Christine Caine
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From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay…
— Frederick Buechner
Who Wrote These Raft Quotes
59 authors contributed a total of 70 Raft Quotes, led by these top contributors: