Quotes About Lifeboats

#1. If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

Dalia Mogahed

#2. The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

Fred Allen

#3. The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. Flynn," Jeth hissed, crossing his arms. "This isn't the high seas. This is the middle of space. We don't have any lifeboats, and we don't need panic. We need solutions.

Mindee Arnett

#5. The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.

Nigel Farage

#6. If all the lifeboats were on the upper deck, then mostly first-class passengers survived?

Kate Alcott

#7. Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

Charlie Brooker

#8. Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

Carrie Fisher

#9. I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. Things floated in the water but none that brought me hope. I could see no other lifeboats.

Yann Martel

#11. When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.

Alice Walker

#12. It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

John Eldredge

#13. Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#14. The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

Jean Kerr

#15. Some captains made no attempt to save the lives of merchant seamen; others went so far as to tow lifeboats towards land. One u-boat commander sent the captain of a torpedoed ship three bottles of wine to ease the long row ashore.

Erik Larson

#16. I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

Sherman Alexie

#17. Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Voltaire

#18. The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

Vance Havner

#19. Ships capacity: 1,463
Passengers on board: 10,573
Lifeboats: 22
But then I remembered.
Ten of the lifeboats were missing

Ruta Sepetys

#20. Analogy and probability are not bedrock; they are lifeboats in an ocean of doubt, and sometimes they founder. So rhetoric tends to the passionate:we argue, not with surety, but as the shipwrecked clinging to the only thing they have.

Andrew J. Patrick

#21. Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden.

Kristin Cashore

#22. The ecstasy of love is a paradise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.

Hafez

#24. Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

Alexandre Dumas

#25. I love to cook. It is a simple pastime.

Haylie Duff

#26. What really matters are the lives you touch along the way and how you finish your journey.

Nick Vujicic

#27. Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Felix Frankfurter

#28. As counterintuitive as it seems, generosity begins wherever you are. It is important to make generosity a priority.

Andy Stanley

#29. I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow in Forks, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind. I knew exactly what caused the difference, and it disturbed me.

Stephenie Meyer

#30. Titanic got 14 nominations one per lifeboat.

Jim Mullen

#31. Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

Rumi

#32. Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

Andy Warhol

#33. If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

Toni Morrison

#34. It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

Harry Redknapp

#35. Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

Robert Anton Wilson

#36. It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the heart of the whole business of the age, one may say, is to do it well.

Thomas Carlyle