A Quote by Judith Viorst

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

Judith Viorst

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Judith Viorst
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Born: February 2, 1932

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?

Francis Collins

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?

Paul Harvey

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

Ilsa J. Bick

I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.

Maggie Stiefvater

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

In the media, waterboarding is called 'simulated drowning,' but that's a misnomer. It does not simulate drowning, as the lungs are actually filling with water. There is no way to simulate that. The victim is drowning.

Malcolm Nance

Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.

Mark Slouka

I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.

Zayn Malik

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

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.

Irena Sendler

A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.

Watchman Nee

He sighed and then focused his eyes right on me. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world except for those eyes. "I want to kiss you, Rose," he said softly. "And I want you to want me too.

Richelle Mead

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He frames my face with his hands as he says, "Tess. Only you could be brave enough to die with me. But I want you to live for me." We kiss, as desperate as though we were drowning. When our lips part, Alec says, "Forgive me.

Claudia Gray

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

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

George R. R. Martin

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