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Tag Name "Drowning" (186)

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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
Octavia Butler
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Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.
George R. R. Martin
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Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Drowning in the sea of love Where everyone would love to drown.
Stevie Nicks
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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 in deep twilight of rest.
William Butler Yeats
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When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: You're going to get through this.
Nelly Furtado
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We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
John Naisbitt
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I'm drowning in whiskey river.
Willie Nelson
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I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.
Joseph Conrad
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It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.
Harvey Fierstein
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I'm drowning in papers.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Here then is the truth about the Truth the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors.
Julian Assange
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For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men well enough they know they are in peril well enough they know the causes of that peril--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.
Herman Melville
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you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?
Kamala Markandaya
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They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)
Ilsa J. Bick
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I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will).
Kenny Chesney
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The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!
Inio Asano
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There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel as if I am drowning into the abandonment of death.
Kim Hyesoon
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I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.
Irena Sendler
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I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
Isaac Marion
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I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.
Maggie Stiefvater
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There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
J. L. Austin
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You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
Margaret Atwood
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