Flounder Quotes

#1. By some miracle, Charlotte's polite smile never wavered. It was a proud moment for her. After all, it wasn't every day that a little old lady told you right to your face that your bosom was as flat as a flounder.

Olivia Parker

#2. Madam, my father has left me flopping like a flounder at low tide and you say what's the matter.

Harper Lee

#3. If Paul did not love the Corinthians, he would walk away from them and let them flounder in their own cesspool of sin. Instead, he is proactive. He confronts, warns, writes, visits, and even humbles himself before them (2 Cor. 2:5-10; 12:21).

Alexander Strauch

#4. 'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

Manny Farber

#5. She noticed a monger's window where, on a bed of ice, a wonderful scene was worked in fish. A skiff made of flounder fillets rode waves of shrimp and blue-black mussels. A whole salmon was a lighthouse, shot out rays of glittering mackerel. All framed by a border of crab claws. She

Annie Proulx

#6. Forgive me. It's true. I wander. I wander in my heart and my thoughts. Such is the curse of any emigrant, to abandon one's home and never find another, to always flounder in a sea of remorse.

Robert Alexander

#7. Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

Audre Lorde

#8. Oh, for shame! Nancy, have you never seen Florrie's face in a chrysanthemum, or a rose?'
'Never.' I said. 'Though there was a flounder for sale on a fishmonger's barrow, in Whitechapel yesterday, and the likeness was quite uncanny. I very nearly brought it home ...

Sarah Waters

#9. To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

Emile M. Cioran

#10. It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#11. Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with my dad as a kid and always felt bad about yanking these panic-stricken creatures from the water. I stopped eating fish as an adolescent and went vegan at twenty.

Dan Mathews

#12. And I have two eyes. I've seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What's his name?

Amanda Hocking

#13. As a father of six kids and as a man who's been transformed by the power of the gospel, I would never just let my kids flounder and just sort of try to figure out their own way through life when I know that I've got the best guide on the planet - God and His word.

Kirk Cameron

#14. My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little.

Paul Dano

#15. Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

Henry Ford

#16. Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.

Bruce Wilkinson

#17. Even experienced men were apt to flounder badly in crises if they lacked leadership.

Larry McMurtry

#18. And if it took me more than thirty seconds of thinking, he wouldn't let me flounder. He would jump right in and explain. Not like so many others who liked to call themselves teachers.

Lili St. Crow

#19. Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.

Dambisa Moyo

#20. The New York Times and Politico report , as Bush continues to flounder on the campaign trail, backers are placing some of the blame on Right To Rise and its inability to sell their candidate.

Chris Hayes

#21. Flounder, flounder, in the sea, Come, I pray thee, here to me; For my wife, good Ilsabil, Wills not as I'd have her will.

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#22. Every good endeavor should be done with purpose. Without a clear sense of purpose, our efforts to do a good thing well can flounder. But with a clear purpose, we are far more likely to persevere.

Jen Wilkin

#23. You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

Terry Brooks

#24. Satan's first appearance in the Bible included an attack on a marriage - trying to divide Adam and Eve. His tactics have not changed. He wants our marriages to flounder and fail, because he knows that few things will discourage us more.

Billy Graham

#25. Faith is a thing of the mind. If you do not believe that God is in control and has formed you for a purpose, then you will flounder on the high seas of purposelessness, drowning in the currents and drifting further into nothingness.

Ravi Zacharias

#26. Insanity is something like drowning,' said Sparrow. 'You go under; you flounder without direction;

Frank Herbert

#27. Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

Matt Chandler

#28. If tonight is my last, I would run towards the sea, wildly swim the tides, the jump up the hills, flounder the cliffs and take all big strides, for I am a wanderer, awed by nature's charm who would love to breathe his last in its embracing arms.

Arvind Parashar

#29. When they'd first come out in the morning, a single flounder lay flapping and puffing in the breezeway, one sad, swollen eye looking back toward the sea.

Dennis Lehane

#30. Was it as Ada suggested, that we can choose our own endings, joy over sorrow? Or does the cruel world just give and take, give and take, while we flounder through the wilderness?

Eowyn Ivey

#31. Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

George Halas

#32. Give a man a fish shop
and he'll flounder.
Teach a man to manage a fish shop,
and he'll learn to fill it!

Cameron Semmens

#33. Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?

Richard Hovey

#34. If my career isn't going that well, I'd rather it flounder than desperately trying to show up on red carpets: 'I'm for hire! Remember me!'

James McAvoy

#35. Because of the collapsing economy of America, it is nearly a mathematical certainty that this ship will soon flounder.

Nicholas Notarberardino

#36. How we flounder when emotion overtakes us.

V.S. Naipaul

#37. Utopians ... consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

Thomas Steven Molnar