Raft Quotes

70 quotes by 59 authors

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. — Ben Hecht
I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. — Mark Twain
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
The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind. — Mark Twain
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
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
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
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
Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet. — Russell B. Long
We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves usâ€”which in most cases is a very long… — Jack Kornfield
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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