#drowning

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#drowning #ends #helpful #man #rope

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#catching #chocolate #cold #drowning #dry

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide. ↗

— Larry Elder

#accidents #auto #black #cause #death

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#bad thing #be nice #before #diversity #drowning

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#information #knowledge #starved

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#drowning #human #human civilization #lies #sea

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#against #born #claim #connection #despite

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. ↗

— John Lennon

#drowning #foresight #help #i #incredibly

And the awful thing was that Grenouille, although he knew that this odour was his odour, could not smell it. Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself! ↗

— Patrick Süskind

#odour #perfume #smell #life

When there's an attractive lifeguard on duty I always drown at least twice. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #lifeguards #funny