Life Preserver Quotes

#1. Because you will never, ever have the life God's planned for you as long as you're holding on to that fear. You can't swim to shore if you never let go of that life preserver.

Jenny B. Jones

#2. If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

Tom Waits

#3. God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.

R.C. Sproul

#4. Knowledge was a personal life preserver you could always count on when you were swimming in the deep end

Deb Caletti

#5. I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I'm tired of drowning.

Amanda Grace

#6. Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair.

Bryant McGill

#7. I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.

Dan Simmons

#8. We need to lose the mental image of our pre-Christian state as a drowning person helplessly flailing about in the water, hoping upon hope that someone might throw us a life preserver. Outside of Christ we are, in fact, spiritual corpses rotting on the ocean floor among the silt and sludge.

Gloria Furman

#9. Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.

Bill Fagerbakke

#11. The battle between her body and mind was raging, and she was adrift in a sea of passion and desire without a life preserver. As she fought the waves of her own passion, the ability to express her need in words was eluding

Avery Gale

#12. It is time to float on the waters of the night.
Time to wrap my arms around this book
and press it to my chest, life preserver
in a sea of unremarkable men and women,
anonymous faces on the street,
a hundred thousand unalphabetized things,
a million forgotten hours.

Billy Collins

#13. A passing thought occurred to me that Miss Murdstone, like the pocket instrument called a life-preserver, was not so much designed for purposes of protection as of assault. But

Charles Dickens

#14. Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

Thomas Carlyle

#16. In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#17. Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique ... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

Charles Handy

#18. Her head rests against my chest as my finger glides around her viscid pussy.

Aven Jayce

#19. I wish I could make you like death a little more. It's a great preserver. Without it the loveliest things change slowly into face, as you will discover if you insist on having much more life.

Alasdair Gray

#20. The new law forbids foreign funding for imams and mosques, a restriction that does not apply to Christian or Jewish places of worship.

Anonymous

#21. Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

Dan Brown

#22. Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

Thomas Piketty

#23. I think he's much funnier in many ways than some of the things that I've done. Because it's a little bit more layered. He's constantly trying to teach Luke what he thinks are really deep philosophical ideas, but they're really simple.

Sean William Scott

#24. It's an opportunity that's there for all of us, like a life raft or preserver to hang onto when there's nothing else or no one else around because man, we're human and no matter what, one way or another, everyone of us in our lives, at some point in time, are going to feel alone.

Chuck Ragan

#25. "The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

Lewis Carroll

#26. Our actions as believers should be extensive and comprehensive

Sunday Adelaja

#27. The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.

Woody Allen

#28. I wanted to get through high school anonymously.

Alessia Cara

#29. If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.

Eddie Izzard

#30. I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.

Aubrey Plaza