Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're awful glad that the taxpayers and the voters will have an opportunity to vote on this. I think they'll grab it just like a drowning man would grab a flotation ring.

Charlaine Harris

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool

Elizabeth Scott

I think you’re the saddest person I’ve ever met. It’s like you’re drowning in it.

Bennie Thompson

We need a real citizen preparedness plan ? one that takes care of children, the elderly and the disabled, ... Mothers and grandmothers should not drown in nursing homes because help never arrived.

Bennie Thompson

We need a real citizen preparedness plan -- one that takes care of children, the elderly and the disabled, ... Mothers and grandmothers should not drown in nursing homes because help never arrived.

Mohsin Hamid

There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

Richard Flanagan

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.

Andrea Yates

If it hadn't been by drowning while we were gone, it would have been smothering them at night or poisoning them at breakfast,

He who will try to drown his sorrows, will find that they can swimm very well.

William Shakespeare

He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.

I can leave but I won't leave. My city is drowning and burning at the same time. We are the only Internet connection still alive in the city and we're going to stay here because our customers are counting on us.

Gary Ackerman

What works in nine districts doesn't work in the 10th, ... The leaders don't want to drown someone along the way.

Liev Schreiber

I had wanted so much to make this a European film. Jonathan and I compared stories of our grandfathers. I wanted to show their survivors' sense of humor: If you believe your life is excrement then you either drown in it or transcend it with irony. That's a distinct Eastern European trait.

I can't see that having a huge impact on the drowning fatalities in Maryland. It would be a significant loss of personal freedom.

Mark Twain

The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him

It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself, especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything else - and I'm satisfied that it should.

David Tepper

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.

Paul Bettany

Listen. If we can't break the ice, how 'bout we drown it?

Harry Connick

It is hard to sit in silence, to watch one's youth wash away, ... Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city... to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child.

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

Danny Wuerffel

I wept this morning thinking about our city. I was thinking about the families and children who drowned in their homes. It's a sad thing but we see an opportunity to do a greater good than has ever been done.

Danny Wuerffel

I wept this morning thinking about our city and thinking about the many families and children that probably drowned in their homes, so it's incredibly sad. And yet somehow at the same time we've experienced a kind of joy and vision and see an opportunity to do a greater good than we've ever done before.

Overconfidence will drown you in the sea of reality.

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.

Simply put, Mr. Holt took an unnecessary risk and drowned in rough water off Cheviot Beach,

Since there are no candidates, it's very quiet, and unusual voices get heard when they might have otherwise been drowned out.

One of the two suspicions is that there was an indirect lightning strike which may have caused the zebra to go into the moat and drown. The other is she had a preexisting medical condition causing problems with her throat and lungs, causing breathing problems, and she may have gone into the moat and drowned as a result.

Jeff Banks

One man down the road said he tried desperately to get his wife into the attic. The man got in the attic, but his wife fell back down and drowned right there in front of him.

One to six people are feared drowned after a baptism service that happened at the river on Sunday morning.

Sathya Baba

No one will go to the rescue of a drowning man if his cries are feeble. 

Ned was trying to get (the boys off him). I jumped in at the last moment as they were backing off and pushed them off, ... I physically lifted (Ned) out of the water and carried him out. He would have drowned if I hadn't been there. He was unconscious and under the water.