Top 100 Raft Quotes
#1. As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.
Brad Herzog
#2. In September 1942, a B-17 crashed in the Pacific, stranding nine men on a raft. Within a few days, one had died and the rest had gone mad.
Laura Hillenbrand
#3. We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.
Mark Twain
#4. In the bustling of the cities, forever surrounded by people and their chatter, we stand alone; an island of humanity. Build your raft, that you may drift into the heart and make real contact.
Martin Cosgrove
#5. Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.
Marie Windsor
#6. People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.
Joanne Harris
#7. Haven't you ever harbored the secret thought that somewhere Huck and Jim are - at this instant - poling their raft down some river just beyond our reach, so much more real are they than the shoe clerk who fitted us just a forgotten day ago?
Dan Simmons
#8. Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
Russell B. Long
#9. Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.
Richard Adams
#10. A monarchy is like a man-of-war
bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.
Joseph Cook
#11. It would be nice, after this was over, to take a long raft trip. Maybe Jen and I could paddle through Westwater and its ass-clenching rapids, then lounge on the banks in Moab for a week or two. That would be heaven: a raft trip with a beer in my hand instead of a rifle. I
Erik Storey
#12. George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.
Cesar Romero
#13. Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft." She stepped close and we hugged. I could feel her trembling ever so slightly. She wasn't bulletproof. I knew then that my shaky faith in myself was starting to dig a hole in hers, and Emma's confidence was what held everything together. It was the life raft.
Ransom Riggs
#14. In the duel of sex, woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
H.L. Mencken
#15. A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?
Eckhart Tolle
#16. men who waded into waters claiming they could swim should not need a raft.
V.E Schwab
#17. Which suggested to me that a novel could be fashioned as a raft of hope, perception and entertainment that might help keep us afloat as we tried to negotiate the snags and whirlpools that mark our nation's vacillating course toward and away from the democratic ideal.
Ralph Ellison
#18. A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.
Fisher Ames
#19. Any moment now ... " The girl [Calypso] stared out at the water.
No magical raft appeared.
"Maybe it got stuck in a traffic," Leo said.
Rick Riordan
#20. All my life, books had been the life raft, the safe haven, the place I ran to when nothing else worked.
Elyn R. Saks
#21. I wouldn't trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic.-max
James Patterson
#22. Drowning, she clung fiercely to that small, splintered piece of mast bobbing in the ocean we call justice. There is no justice, of course, or very little of it, and counting on it as a life raft is a big mistake.
Siri Hustvedt
#23. Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.
Simon Munnery
#24. It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.
James Houston
#25. The River Swish
Deftly maneuvered through
the dark green abyss ~
The wooden raft seemed
in tune with this ~
Canorous rush of the
river swish....
Muse
#26. The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes,
Mark Twain
#27. The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.
Eric Hoffer
#28. Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.
Theresa May
#29. You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.
Anna Quindlen
#30. A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use
whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.
Alan Watts
#31. I learned, as the raft moved and I slid through the day, as the day slid through me, to let the task be master: which is only not to choose to do anything but what has chosen me to be done.
John Crowley
#32. Life was the gift that you were given the day you were born, and in turn you are the gift to life. Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, listen, and to act from the heart.
Forrest Curran
#33. My social status leaps after decades of disqualification on grounds of radiation. The doorbell rings and there stands Vanessa Redgrave. 'Marcie,' she begins, and then goes on about social injustice in Namibia, and how we must all build a raft by late afternoon - preferably out of coconut matting.
Morrissey
#34. The literary scene is a kind of Medusa's raft, small and sinking, and one's instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.
John Updike
#35. When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#36. Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
Eckhart Tolle
#37. These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!
Gautama Buddha
#38. If you have to cross a river, you shall cross the river! Through swimming, through a raft, through walking, through any way possible, you shall cross it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
Mark Twain
#40. He was a life raft in a sea of assholes.
Anna Jarzab
#41. If my good mood were a raft named Gaby, it seemed like it was on the verge of sinking.
Mariana Zapata
#42. A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
Ben Elliot
#43. I started using a raft at my shows in 2009, and in 2011, I started caking people.
Steve Aoki
#44. GENES
G raft of yourself
E endowment
N ew generation
E volution
S urvival
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#45. When you're the ones in the life raft and you have four or five women in the life raft who put it together, by the end of it your nerves are blown. The people you're going to attack are the people who are helping you, who you are holding it together with.
Junot Diaz
#46. Emma shook her head. Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.
Ransom Riggs
#47. A raft or a scow, you know; and maybe you could hear a fiddle or a song coming over from one of them crafts. It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them,
Mark Twain
#48. I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
Mark Twain
#49. She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island
but that's what a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die.
Stewart O'Nan
#50. Oh, dear me!" he lamented. "The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now."
"Well, never mind. We're not on it," said Snufkin gaily. "What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!
Tove Jansson
#51. In love madly,
traveling though the
life-raft's unraveling
in a beautiful tragedy,
but gladly i'm still
paddling through
the ocean
of your
anatomy.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#52. Fox's hand was a life raft, the only thing stopping me from sinking further into empty blackness.
Lili Wilkinson
#53. A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.
Plato
#54. There is no life raft' you're just freaking swimming all the time.
Barbara Kingsolver
#55. You're the icing on the cake on the table at my wake, You're the extra ton of cash on my sinking life raft, You're the loud sound of fun when I'm trying to sleep, You're the flowers in my house when my allergies come out.
Modest Mouse
#56. I looked at my surroundings but there wasn't much to see. In the feeble glow of the single bulb above the music rack, Feely and I might as well have been castaways on a tiny raft of light in a sea of darkness. By
Alan Bradley
#57. It is telling commentary on economic orthodoxy that a whole subdiscipline--behavioral economics--and a raft of lab experiments are needed to show that humans often fail to behave with the rationality expected of them.
Kaushik Basu
#58. Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping ... you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.
Mark Twain
#59. 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
#60. I will stay with it and endure through suffering hardship and once the heaving sea has shaken my raft to pieces, then I will swim.
Homer
#61. Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be ...
Guru Nanak
#62. There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand.
Hayao Miyazaki
#63. The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.
Voltaire
#64. I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft ...
Jim Morrison
#65. I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield.
Marie Windsor
#66. Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.
David R. Brower
#68. When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.
Cate Blanchett
#69. The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by 'clean' means (biofuels, innovative renewables, carbon sequestration, and nuclear fusion).
Martin Rees
#70. I watched from the raft as the beautiful deep began to swallow the massive boat of steel.
In one large gulp." Emilia p341
Ruta Sepetys
#71. You are so in over your head that even a life raft can't keep you afloat.
Holly Stephens
#72. Safety, stability
it's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim.
Rainbow Rowell
#73. I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
Marie Windsor
#74. Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, listen, and to act from the heart. Only in the moments of pain, do we begin to empathize with humankind. Only when you are lost, you will find new meaning. Float on.
Forrest Curran
#75. Sometimes he feels like he can't breathe.
Sometimes his thoughts come so fast he has to find one perfect memory.
Cling to it.
A life raft.
Blake Crouch
#76. You're my life raft in an endless ocean. You saved me from drowning. You saved me from myself.
K.A. Linde
#78. But you can't navigate a raft," he added. "It goes sideways and backward and round as the wind takes it.
Thor Heyerdahl
#79. A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.
Gautama Buddha
#80. Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
Ben Hecht
#81. Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.
George Henry Lewes
#82. Hope was a dangerous thing, I knew, but it didn't stop your heart from latching on to it like a life raft.
Karina Halle
#83. Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.
Penelope Lively
#84. It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.
Plato
#85. The two men's gazes lock and I am suddenly swimming in a pool of testosterone, in need of a life raft.
Lisa Renee Jones
#86. I was the feral, mud-bathing, tree-climbing variety of child. Why would I want to read about pirates when I could build a raft and terrorise sheep along the riverbanks?
Sarah Hall
#87. Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.
Kenneth Tynan
#88. Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.
Dorothea Tanning
#89. Reeds are strong, you know, Ulean whispered to me. They bend during storms, rather than break.
I blinked. Yes, but reeds won't hold up a house.
They make a good raft, so don't write them off so fast.
Yasmine Galenorn
#90. The narrow, middle, common-ground is the life-raft in a turbulent sea of extremism. We are overwhelmed by common hopes.
Bryant McGill
#91. To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
Gautama Buddha
#92. All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
Erica Jong
#93. She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.
Homer
#94. Part of me wants to ignore the wrongness and just believe him, but then I'd be pretending as much as he is. No matter how much I want to deny the truth, it gets more obvious every day that he's a drowning man clinging to a sinking raft.
Anonymous
#95. People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.
Louis Zamperini
#96. Being with you is like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning how to swim
Rainbow Rowell
#97. Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.
Alice Hoffman
#98. It would 'a' been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; for what you want, above all things, on a raft, is for everybody to be satisfied, and feel right and kind towards the others.
Mark Twain
#99. On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.
Lee Smolin
#100. Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
Jack Kerouac
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