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We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. -- John Naisbitt
If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. -- Simon Cowell
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. -- John Lennon
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. -- Anais Nin
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. -- John Jay Chapman
I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times! -- Jonathan Banks
Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers. -- Octavia Butler
Drowning,Drowning on the land,Drowning,It doesn't end. -- C.G. Visser
Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
My heart is flooded with love. Drowning is the way to go. -- Amanda Mosher
Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel. -- George R. R. Martin
Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes. -- Rainbow Rowell
Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand... -- Cassandra Clare
You idiot!" She spat, flattening her ears. "What are you doing in my territory?" "Drowning?" Replied Graystripe. -- Erin Hunter
He danced across my heart like a pirate,Constantly discovering my secrets,Turning over every hidden treasure,Drowning me in his fantasy. -- Tanzy Sayadi
No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning. -- Dane Cook
SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito -- Reiko Chiba
If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better. -- Abby Sunderland
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
Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory??? Graystripe:...Drowning? Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory? Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there? -- Erin Hunter
Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give. -- Ted Hughes
One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising. -- Robert Bly
Soyinka's Death at Dawn, Auden's MusÃ©e des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska's Some People come to mind immediately. But there are plenty, plenty more that I enjoy. -- Ama Ata Aidoo
You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning) -- Amy Tan
I once saved someone from drowning. -- Simon Van Booy
We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning. -- Haruki Murakami
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. -- Edwin Louis Cole
It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope. -- Arthur Baer
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. -- Billy Bob Thornton
You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby. -- Jim Gaffigan
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. -- Edna Ferber
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. -- Mark Twain
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance. -- Richard Paul Evans
I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it. -- Sherri Shepherd
A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself. -- Watchman Nee
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man. -- Dick Van Dyke
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. -- Stevie Smith
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
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 choosing to be curious about other people. -- John Bytheway
I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do a lot of my work reading now on my iPad. -- Mariella Frostrup
When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it. -- Douglas Coupland
Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something. -- Penn Jillette
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink. -- George Ohsawa
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation. -- Gabriel Byrne
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. -- E. O. Wilson
Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal. -- James E. Faust
Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive. -- R. C. Sproul
I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that. -- David Hasselhoff
Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned? -- Leonard Ravenhill
Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do. -- Dennis Prager
What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around. -- Anthony de Mello
My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange. -- Florence Welch
I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection. -- Lewis Thomas
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. -- Wilson Rawls
I'm drowning in papers. -- Wislawa Szymborska
I'm drowning my brother drowning. -- Eva Paterson
I'm drowning in whiskey river. -- Willie Nelson
Here is the boy, drowning. -- Patrick Ness
Promises. I was drowning in promises. -- Richelle Mead
A drowning person doesn't rescue herself. -- Julie Schumacher
Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm drowning and you're stealing every breath. -- Cher Lloyd
A drowning man will clutch at a straw. -- Thomas More
Wherever there is water there is someone drowning. -- Robert Bly
Imagine you're drowning, and someone hands you a baby. -- Jim Gaffigan
It was like drowning, only from the inside out. -- Stephen King
Sometimes you need to stop fighting to stop drowning -- Evy Michaels
Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children. -- Marlene Dietrich
Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. -- L. Neil Smith
When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink. -- George Herbert
No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat. -- Ann Landers
I am girl overboard.But you do make drowning fun. -- Casey Renee Kiser
Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning. -- Amy Lowell
Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning. -- Mark Slouka
Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them. -- Mark Twain
I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning -- Scott Lynch
You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you? -- Jodi Picoult
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning. -- Tori Amos
Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy. -- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. -- Mignon McLaughlin
We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery. -- Jentezen Franklin
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms. -- Franz Kafka
Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence. -- Charles Bukowski
It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said. -- Kristin Cashore
He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen. -- Amanda Hocking
If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth -- Ray Kroc
There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning. -- Craig Childs
I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim. -- Oliver Sykes
Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning. -- Anais Nin
Loving you was like jumping into the dark side of a pool, and drowning. -- Lori Jenessa Nelson
They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241) -- Ilsa J. Bick
No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop;... -- Nicholas Sparks
We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown. -- Anna Kamienska
A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste. -- James M. Cain
I think you're the saddest person I've ever met. It's like you're drowning in it. -- Elizabeth Scott
I think you're the saddest person I've ever met. It's like you're drowning in it." -- Elizabeth Scott
Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years. -- Leonard Cohen
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim -- Bono
The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning. -- Helen Cresswell
I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her. -- Zayn Malik
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses. -- Isaac Marion
... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning. -- Paul Theroux
They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning. I like to live on the edge. -- Steven Wright
Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down. -- Carsten Jensen
We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man? -- Tom Stoppard
The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber. -- Michael Simkins
He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water. -- Ray Kroc
There was a slight rapping at my bathroom doorAre you alright in there?No. I respondedI'm drowning. -- Khalia Hades
Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. -- Thiruvalluvar
Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense! -- George Carlin
I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers. -- Muriel Barbery
She was drowning-in friendliness, in community-and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out. -- Tricia Goyer
In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival. -- Christine Feehan
If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child -- Tony Benn

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