Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.
You drown him by your talk.
It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.
If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.
I don't recommend washing your face. Because you might drown.
Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?
Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.
I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.
You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.
When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.
One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At the point when Bill Sikes was about to drown his dog to put the police off his track, Churchill covered Rufus's eyes with his hand. He said, "Don't look now, dear. I'll tell you about it afterwards. "
The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always zero. It is ice in the veins. It's camera is an x-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.
We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.
If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood
In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.