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  • If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

    Sight   People   Singing  
    "Reality Check: 'Bikini Girl' Brings Out the Fight in New 'Idol' Judge Kara DioGuardi" by Diane Macedo, www.foxnews.com. January 14, 2009.
  • Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

    Art   Hate   Men  
  • I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.

    Sea   Answers   Adrift  
    Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.49, Delacorte Press
  • Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

    "Empire of Lies" by L. Neil Smith, www.lneilsmith.org. June 15, 2003.
  • Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

    Cold   Drowning   Moaning  
    'Not Waving but Drowning' (1957)
  • You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you." "Was there a next time?" "Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

    Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.505, Simon and Schuster
  • I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.

    Fall   Feelings   Trying  
    Song: Dance With Me Slow, Album: You Hold the Key
  • All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

    Lying   Love Is   Mirrors  
    "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.
  • Men," said Mr. Kyle, "people have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love--the deepest kind of love.

    Loyalty   Dog   Children  
    Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.214, Laurel Leaf
  • Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students, but, as any academic Dean will tell you, it's up to the students to seek it out, something that a drowning minority student will seek to avoid at all costs, fearing it will trumpet a second-class status.

    Struggle   Kids   Class  
  • Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim their way to the surface. “Is that why they named you Aphros?” Leo asked as they glided down the path from the cave. “Because of the Afro?” Aphros scowled. “What do you mean?” “Nothing,” Leo said quickly.

    Mean   Hair   Blue  
  • All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.

    Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.

    Spiritual   Men   May  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

    Jesus   Prayer   Lakes  
    Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
  • The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

    Men   Black   Causes  
    "'Gun Culture' – What About the 'Fatherless Culture'?" by Larry Elder, www.wnd.com. January 16, 2013.
  • Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

    "Tom Hardy: 'It's a normal human impulse to watch two people kick the hell out of each other'". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.
  • I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.

    Party   Saws   Married  
  • at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

    Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.553, Macmillan
  • When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.206, Macmillan
  • Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

    Men   Drowning   Wisps  
  • So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

    Jesus   Believe   Men  
  • I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little would be disastrous.

  • I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw hat.

    Men   Tea   Littles  
    P. G. Wodehouse (2010). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.53, The Floating Press
  • It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

    Mistake   People   Baths  
    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.19, Courier Corporation
  • Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.

  • A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.

    Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.178, Penguin
  • The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction - not merely the idea - that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.

    Ideas   Voice   House  
    Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.27, Church Publishing, Inc.
  • When you're standing in deep water And you're bailing yourself out with a straw And when you're drowning in deep water And you wake up making love to a wall Well it's these little time that help to remind It's nothing without love, love, love

    Song   Wall   Deep Water  
    Song: Deep Water, Album: Spirit, 1998
  • She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

    Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

    Fear   Stupid   Men  
    Michael Crichton (1997). “The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.”
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