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. - Author: B.C. Forbes

#2. I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering. - Author: 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. - Author: 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. - Author: 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. - Author: 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. - Author: 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. - Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#8. All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. - Author: Saint Teresa Of Avila

#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. - Author: 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 - Author: Robert Kiyosaki

#11. Her silence was the blank space between the words. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#12. Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner. - Author: Michel Martelly