A Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks
... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.
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.
My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company.... A drowning man is not separated from the lust for air by a bridge of thought—he is one with it—and my son, conceived and grown in an ethanol bath, lives each day in the act of drowning. For him there is no shore.
If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?
We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.
Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.
I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.
I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.
Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.
I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.
They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)
I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.
Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.
Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.
Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.
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