Words matter. These are the best Drown Quotes from famous people such as Stephanie Ruhle, Michael Specter, Grover Norquist, Daphne Oz, Michelle Obama, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Having the responsibilities of family life forced me to drown out office politics and focus on delivering my best at home and work.
The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.
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.
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
When I was working on ‘Drown’ – this was way back in the mid-’90s – I had this idea that I wanted to do another collected stories. I wanted to do another book like ‘Drown’ that focused specifically on infidelity.
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.
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.
While the left will attempt to drown out Trump’s political accomplishments with unfounded allegations of Russian collusion, the voters who made Trump commander-in-chief will likely reach a different conclusion. Trump has proven himself loyal to the voters who put him there.
I just thought ‘Blue’ was a great premise and a great set-up for conflict. I love the idea of exploring a character who’s living a secret life and is going to drown in the lies she’s telling.
You don’t get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.
If you don’t treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect – if you drown it in oil, for instance – you’ll spoil it.
We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
‘Drown’ was always a hybrid book. It’s connected stories – partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more – story, novel, neither, both.
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.
When you prepare for something, it’s like jumping into cold water, but you’re prepared. You jump in. And you start swimming, or if you don’t swim, you drown.
There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn’t drown out the rest quite so much.
I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
A book isn’t noise to drown out other noise.
Finding someone who’s willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.
I was always into music. I think everyone is when they’re a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.
I learned it is important to be confident in what you have and drown out all of the outside noise. You can’t be distracted by what everyone else is doing and how they are doing it.
Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
It’s a very competitive world out there. The competitive spirit is fine within limits. But it shouldn’t drown the sheer joy of the game being played. It’s natural to want to win. But to me, it’s not natural to want others to fail.
You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
Know who you are and stay true to it. Have a point of view, keep your head down when noise tries to drown out your inner voice, and whatever you do, keep pushing.
You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
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.
I enjoy performing, always, but when you’re taping a gig, you’ve got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that’s surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won’t be able to do anything.
Can you really learn to knit from a diagram? Try it. Do you want to learn to ski or surf by yourself? You could drown or run into a tree.
I’m not a very good swimmer, and every time I’m in the water, I’m constantly reminded of that because I feel like I’m going to drown!
You can’t drown yourself in drink. I’ve tried, you float.
I love to drown myself in work. I pray to God to keep me busy and let me do good work.
In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
I’d drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more joyful that they were, or ever have been.
As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.
From drug companies to health insurers to Wall Street banks, big corporations are spending millions to buy influence in Washington and drown out the voices of regular people.
Sometimes the most negative voices in the room are the loudest and it’s easy for them to drown out the rest.
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.
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
No one would touch me with a barge pole as an actress. It hit hard. I thought, ‘What am I doing? This is a stupid idea!’ It’s like throwing yourself into a massive pond, and you feel like you’re going to drown so quickly.
