Flotsam And Jetsam Quotes

#1. [W]e all care deeply about things that seem totally inconsequential to other people. We all carry around with us the flotsam and jetsam of perceived humiliations that actually mean nothing. We are a mass of vulnerabilities, and who knows what will trigger them?

Jon Ronson

#2. There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you're aware of it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions ...

Tim Ferriss

#3. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.

Mabel Osgood Wright

#5. I look back at things I said when I was younger - it was bulls - t. You do what you have to do to go where you have to go, but I look back and I don't believe what that guy was saying.

Nikki Sixx

#6. The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.

Daniel Goleman

#7. Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?
All the time.

Wendy Mass

#8. Tread softly for you tread on my dreams.
-Honor,from the Summer King.

O.R. Melling

#9. Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.

Rumi

#10. Messi is the Best. There must be life out there somewhere, on some other planet. Because he is too good and we are just too bad for him.

Jurgen Klopp

#11. I have to acknowledge that the sea is a cup of death, and the land is a stained altar stone. We the living are survivors huddled on flotsam, living on jetsam. We are escapees. We wake in terror, eat in hunger, sleep with a mouth full of blood.

Annie Dillard

#12. I need to know." He brushed his knuckles across my cheekbones as he stared deep into my eyes. "I need to know so I can try to reverse all the damage they've done.

Samantha Young

#13. When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I read on Goth blog sites.

Christopher Moore

#14. The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.

Brennan Manning

#15. Two things will paralyze our creativity faster than anything else: 1. We haven't defined success. 2. We haven't defined failure.

Todd Henry

#16. When you look at the government, when the government collects a buck, it's not free. They have to spend resources, the IRS, audits, all this sort of crap, to collect the dollar. I'm not assuming any Laffer curve effect here at all. There are just transactions costs of collecting that money.

Arthur Laffer

#17. I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

Narendra Modi

#18. Wise girls kiss but never love
Listen but never believe
And leave befor they are left

Marilyn Monroe