Lifebelt Quotes

#1. To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

Nelson Mandela

#2. The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

Allen Ginsberg

#3. A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Jerome K. Jerome

#4. I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. I have a lot of fond memories of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Vague, but fond.

Joel Murray

#6. I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

Patrick Marber

#7. I have enough of everything.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.

Sheila Heti

#9. Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

Solange Knowles

#10. Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

Seneca The Younger

#11. If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.

Julien Green

#12. etiquette rule that dictated a woman should put on all the jewelry she intends to wear, then remove one piece before leaving the house. Maybe two pieces, in his case.

Laura Lippman

#13. Blow it Chix. Blow that door off it's damn hinges."
"Yessir. Off it's damn hinges. That's a roger.

Eoin Colfer