Drown Quotes

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs

Life, Time, Courage

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
Paulo Coelho

Falling, River, Staying

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan Watts

Faith, Trust, Yourself

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Frida Kahlo

Good, Feeling, Learned

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
Steven Wright

Rest, Swimmer, Drowns

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke

May, Through, Nation

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields

Death, Cold, Whiskey

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
Grover Norquist

Government, Down, Goal

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole

Water, Falling, Staying

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.
John Barrymore

Yourself, Drink, Tried

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
Matthew Henry

Elephant, Lamb, Depths

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
Jimmy Carter

Wife, Wanted, Often

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
Grover Norquist

Government, Goal, Size

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Knowledge, Sure, Thirst

Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.
Michelle Obama

Great, Play, Won

They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?
Karl Pilkington

Time, Big, Else

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers

Sorrow, Knows, Drink

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Knowledge, Technology, Fun

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Charles de Gaulle

Weather, Fair, Soon

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.
Simone Schwarz-Bart

Life, Down, Sun

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

Feeling, Everyone, Knows

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
John Fletcher

Today, Tomorrow, Sorrow

I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.
Aubrey Plaza

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.
James Chanos

Work, Negative, Wrong

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.
Penelope Spheeris

Music, Everyone, Teenager

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
Lucy Larcom

Music, Thoughts, Enough

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
Billy Tauzin

Between, Rather, Off

'SNL' after-parties are sort of like a time to celebrate your successes and drown your sorrows, depending on how the show went for you.
Seth Meyers

Time, Show, Celebrate

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
Terrence Malick

Powerful, Feeling, Nostalgia

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