Zitat des Tages über Ertrinken / Drown:
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.
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.
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.
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
I do know that there is no reason for me to drown myself from sorrow since I haven't yet tried to achieve anything great.
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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.
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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.
Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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.
If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
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!
While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.
I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.
I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
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.
If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.
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.
A book isn't noise to drown out other noise.
I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.