A Quote by Mary Butts

Sink twice before you strike out for land. — © Mary Butts
Sink twice before you strike out for land.
The half-human was the hottest thing he'd ever gotten anywhere near. And he'd cozied up to a lightning strike once or twice before.
No wolf falters before the bite So strike No hawk wavers before the dive Just strike
I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!
I sit in the sink (while applying makeup). I do. I've broken more sinks...I sit in the sink, on top of a big square sink in my bathroom with my feet in the basin so I'm very close to the mirror with the good light, and I'm very comfortable. I also manage to put my two phones in the sink so that nothing, but nothing, could get me out of there.
The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.
There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.
Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.
To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my brother far away is ascending, The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.
People strike out. I strike out a lot - it happens. Just got to keep working.
Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.
We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity.
He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.
Don't wait to buy land, Buy land and wait. Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.
The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they get the water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.
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