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  • What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.

    Sharks   Survivor   May  
  • 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
  • The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

    Church   Ships   Cruise  
  • Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.

    Mother   Women   Sea  
  • It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

  • I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.

    Love You   Whales   Teeth  
    "The Beatrice Letters". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.
  • Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese

  • Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if you are going to pull others out of it, and you will have to dive into the floods if you are going to draw others out of the water. You cannot work a fire escape without feeling the scorch of the conflagration, nor man a lifeboat without being covered with the waves.

    Winning   Men   Fire  
  • Some loves are like that. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, & your self-respect & independence. After a while you start throwing people out - friends, everyone you know. & it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, & you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of people. I think that's why I'm sick of love. - Karla

    Heart   Pride   Thinking  
  • The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

    Christian   Men   Mind  
    Vance Havner (1973). “Three-Score & Ten”, Fleming H. Revell Company
  • As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

  • Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

    Sadness   Sea   Sailing  
    Song: Drifting
  • Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

    FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Jul 25, 2011
  • ‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

    Elizabeth Cooney Leister, Voltaire (1985). “Voltaire's Candide”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated
  • Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water.

    Spring   Thinking   Self  
    Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.2, Ballantine Books
  • The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

  • Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our trust in something other than God to redeem us. In so doing, we die to our broken natures in exchange for His perfect nature, and find unification with Him that will allow God to see us as one.

    Ideas   Broken   Giving  
    Donald Miller (2004). “Searching for God Knows What”, p.226, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a ship called the Accelo(ph) coming back from the Red Sea and we were sunk off the coast of Africa by a German submarine. And I was in a lifeboat for 14 days and landed and lived with the Pondos in South Africa while - who took care of us and took care of me. I had some wound in my left leg.

    "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.
  • No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities.

    Orders issued on September 17, 1942. "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 406, 1997.
  • Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

    Sex   Children   Men  
  • The first joke I got on the air I remember clearly. Dennis McNicholas and Robert Carlock wrote a sketch where they were evacuating the Titanic, and the last two guys on the entire ship were the two black guys, Samuel L. Jackson and Tracy Morgan. So Will Ferrell was running back and forth, saying, "All first-class passengers get in the lifeboat. All second-class passengers and third-class passengers get in the lifeboat. Let's get all the animals in the lifeboat. Let's put all the empty luggage in the lifeboat."

    Running   Animal   Air  
    Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.
  • When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

    Nice   Fire   Bridges  
  • The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

    Book   Three   Lasts  
  • I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.

  • If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship's axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides.

    Hate   Hands   People  
  • The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I see a real financial crisis coming for the United States.

    Real   People   Trying  
  • I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

    "Excerpt: 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian'", www.npr.org. November 20, 2007.
  • Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted no music at all for the oceanic Lifeboat, because he felt audiences would wonder where the music was coming from in the middle of the sea. Raksin said, Ask Hitch where the cameras are coming from.

    Writing   Sea   Cameras  
  • Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

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