#drown

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ↗

— Ann Landers

#ever #his #nobody #own #sweat

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. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#defied #discords #drown #enough #fly

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#biased #contradicted #desire #drowned #extinguished

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

#drowning #feel #greatest #him #his

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. ↗

— Ann Landers

#drink #drown #how #knows #people

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. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#cut #down #drown #get #goal

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#drown #goal #government #our #shrink

Oh, 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. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#drown #great #i #laps #me

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#drowning #far #further #heard #him

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#drowned #generally #get #language #lyric