Drowning Quote by Octavia Butler Download Open image “Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.” — Octavia Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drowning Fighting People Sometimes
When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down. — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don’t because the body protects and the skin… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under. — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina” — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools,… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are… — George Ohsawa Copy Share Image
“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under water when… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
