Drown Quotes

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.

They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.