#owning

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#enough #guidance #here #needed #poems

There is no delight in owning anything unshared. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#delight #owning

Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it's great that he's coming back to join a very capable administration already of dealing with this problem, and it will just strengthen that team. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#already #also #back #capable #coming

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. ↗

— John Lennon

#drowning #foresight #help #i #incredibly

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#intimacy #resuscitation #sex #love

You seem to be drowning twice," said Hermione. "Oh, am I?" said Ron peering down at his predictions. "I'd better change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humor #change

We don't have to know everything. If you believe in fate and some kind of meaning and sense in this fucked-up world, then believe with abandon, love. Enjoy it. ↗

— Jessica Park

#left-drowning #life #love

For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown. ↗

— Herman Melville

#men

I love being able to see an un-written future. ↗

— Michael Jones

#michael-jones #poems #poetry #poetry-life #poetry-quotes

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#crowning #evolution #far #glory #human