Quotes About Clutching At Straws

#1. We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

Tom Stoppard

#2. I'm not a bitch," I replied, and it took everything I had to keep my voice steady. "I'm a mother. I can't afford to play games with you, Ruger. You'll break me.

Joanna Wylde

#3. Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.

Daniel Radcliffe

#4. Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind.

Kim J. Vicente

#5. The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.

Charlie Bell

#6. This is what schizophrenia is: endless despair, endless, inconclusive treatment; endless clutching at little straws of betterness; endless realisation that that is all they are, is all there is.

Tim Salmon

#7. My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic.

Sri Chinmoy

#8. You do have a choice, you know," Etta told her after a moment. "There is always a choice.

Alexandra Bracken

#9. I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

Joan Rivers

#10. Life will go on.

Lauren Oliver

#11. Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Edmund Burke

#12. I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

Neil Gaiman

#13. When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong.

Carl Icahn

#14. Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#15. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace." He gave a shrug. "They never are." Dany

George R R Martin