The Raft Quotes: top 40 famous quotes about The Raft

The Raft Quotes & Sayings

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The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself. — Thich Nhat Hanh

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head. — Gautama Buddha

But you can't navigate a raft," he added. "It goes sideways and backward and round as the wind takes it. — Thor Heyerdahl

If my good mood were a raft named Gaby, it seemed like it was on the verge of sinking. — Mariana Zapata

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly. — George Raft

Emma shook her head. Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft. — Ransom Riggs

Raft of the Medusa. — John-Allen Price

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm coming back for you Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear on the river Styx. — Rick Riordan

All my life, books had been the life raft, the safe haven, the place I ran to when nothing else worked. — Elyn R. Saks

I wouldn't trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic.-max — James Patterson

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

I'm more than happy to stay on your couch..." "Remember Rose and Jack on the raft?" he asks with a smirk. "I'll make room. — Christina Lee

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

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

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, — Mark Twain

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

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits. — Anna Quindlen

I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost. — George Raft

The narrow, middle, common-ground is the life-raft in a turbulent sea of extremism. We are overwhelmed by common hopes. — Bryant McGill

Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it. — Richard Adams

There is no life raft' you're just freaking swimming all the time. — Barbara Kingsolver

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away. — Jack Kerouac

Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly. — George Raft

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft ... — Jim Morrison

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

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

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer. — Louis Zamperini

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

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

Fox's hand was a life raft, the only thing stopping me from sinking further into empty blackness. — Lili Wilkinson

In the duel of sex, woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. — H.L. Mencken

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

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

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. — Ben Hecht

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

Kirtan is food for the spirit, a life raft of song. — Jai Uttal

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