Being Submerged Quotes

#1. Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority.

James A.C. Brown

#2. The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth.

John Lennon

#3. The acknowledgement of death rises and subsides in us like waves that must be ridden out. We keep our heads above this dangerous water to avoid being submerged in fear, or in hopeless resignation.

Brenda Walker

#4. I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns.

John Sexton

#5. Belize suits me because I'm active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I have dived in Vietnam, which wasn't great, the Red Sea, which was incredible and reasonably priced, and then the Maldives, which is like being submerged in an aquarium.

Georgina Chapman

#6. If you want to know what an ultimate goal would be, of course it would be utter peace.

David Miscavige

#7. Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

Miguel De Cervantes

#8. The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

John Calvin

#9. Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

Henry Miller

#10. I just started going to shows. I don't know how submerged I am: I feel guilty that I don't get out more, but I really like being inside the house.

John Darnielle

#11. Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any social failure-so I can say "No, I don't go out for many extracurricular activities, but I spend a lot of time writing."

Sylvia Plath

#12. Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working in groups, without being unduly submerged in the group.

Byron White

#13. A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl