A Quote by Martha Manning

Some struggles are so solitary that they drown in words.

Martha Manning

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Drown Solitary Some Struggles Words

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Martha Manning
Born: August 8, 1952

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

Anna Kamienska

Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love' is one of those words, performative words. Some words can literally make things real.

David Foster Wallace

Some of our struggles involve making decisions, while others are a result of the decisions we have made. Some of our struggles result from choices others make that affect our lives. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

George R. R. Martin

All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.

Octavia Butler

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

Salman Rushdie

Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.

Marilyn Manson

When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.

Marilyn Manson

It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land.

Javad Alizadeh

You wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood" ~Violence(Maddox)

Gena Showalter

Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of life - the practice of it. They put you in solitary confinement for disciplinary reasons, they put you in solitary confinement to protect you from violence or whatever, and they also put you in solitary confinement just to show you who has got the power ... It's not something new; it's just something that nobody really cared about in the past.

Wilbert Rideau

And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end, and would drown the speaker before he could reach the life raft of the point he was trying to make. It was impossible to remember what one meant, what, after all of the words, was intended.

Jonathan Safran Foer

You don't drown by falling in water. You only drown if you stay there.

Zig Ziglar

You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

Zig Ziglar

Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.

William Shakespeare

Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliverance in the belly of the whale. Solitary in the sense of retreat. In the sense of not having to see himself, of not having to see himself being seen by anyone else.

Paul Auster

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