Top 12 Foundering Quotes
#1. Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
B.C. Forbes
#2. I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering.
Mary Crosby
#3. Another of those things that must be true because everyone else agrees they are, although they don't seem so to me.
Margaret Atwood
#4. [T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established ... are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.
Thomas Jefferson
#5. Freedom-loving people around the world must say ... I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.
Ronald Reagan
#6. The wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
#7. Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse.
To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,
As in a foundering ship.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#9. Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.
Christopher Hitchens
#10. A high income job, a big house, nice cars, and lavish vacations don't mean you are rich, in fact it could mean exactly opposite
Robert Kiyosaki
#11. Her silence was the blank space between the words.
Paulo Coelho
#12. Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.
Michel Martelly
