Top 42 Water Treading Quotes
#1. It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
Dick Cavett
#2. I knew that something profound was coming my way and I was just treading water, waiting for it. I didn't know what it was. I didn't know where it was. I didn't know if it was coming next year or next month. But I knew I was different from my friends in where I was going.
Diana Princess Of Wales
#3. It occurred to me that we were the same, in a way. Both of us treading water, pushing against forces we couldn't control.
Heather Demetrios
#4. As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water.
Eric Newby
#5. Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
Roberto Bolano
#6. People are very adamant about maintaining a certain sound or a certain era, like, "There were three years of rap that were great, so let's just keep doing that." The genre itself is just stuck in place. It's been treading water for a while.
Aesop Rock
#7. Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
Confucius
#9. He sure does fall asleep a lot. Must be the Paxil. he takes his pill and a half hour later it's like he's roofied himself.
Jay Clark
#10. I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
Walt Disney Company
#11. When you can't handle the heady concoction of wine and women, it's time to pack up your bags and quit.
Anurag Shourie
#12. Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more.
Jan Egeland
#13. The wave hits. It doesn't even slow. Hungries slam full-tilt into the mesh and into the concrete stanchions that support it. It leans inwards, groans and creaks, but seems to be holding. The front ranks of walking corpses are treading water. But
M.R. Carey
#14. Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.
Chuck Palahniuk
#15. Let's start wobbling, shall we? said Locke's knees, but this offer was met by a counterproposal from his better judgement to simply freeze up and do nothing, like a man treading water who sees a tall black fin coming straight at him.
Scott Lynch
#16. The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.
Bryant H. McGill
#17. Raven was asking Apple to give up all known paths forever after. To lose everything that was known and safe. To spend her entire life on unfamiliar paths and wind-beaten cliffs. Every day uncertain, dangerous, treading water in a well with no guarantee of a Happily Ever After.
Shannon Hale
#18. If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.
Matt Mullenweg
#19. There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I'm fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school.
Emma Stone
#20. Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.
John Updike
#21. A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water
if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.
Susanna Kearsley
#22. We start to sway again. We're not actually dancing, just rocking side to side. Not moving forward or backward. Just moving.
Like most of our time together, we're treading water.
Trying not to drown.
Leisa Rayven
#23. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.
Karl French
#24. One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water ... I always felt that once you reach a certain point, you have to try and move ahead.
Dick Button
#25. Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.
Drake
#26. Lord Maccon, being Lord Maccon and good at such things, then changed, right there in the Thames, from dog-paddling wolf to large man treading water. He did so flawlessly, so that his head never went under the water. Professor Lyall suspected him of practicing such maneuvers in the bathtub.
Gail Carriger
#27. Indonesia is just treading water when we are supposed to be bringing about change
Joesoef Isak
#29. Purvis. This is my associate, Samantha Kofer. We've been hired to get our client out of jail. Snowden took a step back as Mattie pressed ahead. Samantha, treading water, wasn't sure what to do, so
John Grisham
#30. When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.
Tom Shadyac
#31. Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.
Erma Bombeck
#32. Treading water, a little dog-paddling - it's a lot like writing a novel, Clark," the dump reader told his former student. "It feels like you're going a long way, because it's a lot of work, but you're basically covering old ground - you're hanging out in familiar territory.
John Irving
#33. I had not been content just to read and to learn. I
Ben Carson
#34. You've been treading water," she said. "You're marking the years, not living them.
Robyn Carr
#35. I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year's cupful and downward into a decade's quart and downward into a lifetime's ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman's float.
Anne Sexton
#36. Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe that the beauty we steal from any man-made thing is stolen from its more virtuous and metaphysical backstory, wherein "real" beauty is said to reside.
Dave Hickey
#37. Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
Looking for something to give.
Ted Hughes
#38. Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#39. I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.
Roseanne Barr
#40. in the end she had not wanted a life spent treading water in his story. She still did not - and yet she regarded herself in the glass a little ruefully. To have that choice removed by time and age was painful.
Kij Johnson
#41. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, isn't war the most demented activity ever invented?
Mary Pat Kelly
#42. The more time she spent with Tristen, the deeper she was sinking into his darkness. She was drowning in his wild theories, barely treading the water.
LeeAnn Whitaker
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