Lifeboats Quotes

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate. ~ Vance Havner

I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back. ~ Neal A. Maxwell

The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners. ~ Fred Allen

Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if you are going to pull others out of it, and you will have to dive into the floods if you are going to draw others out of the water. You cannot work a fire escape without feeling the scorch of the conflagration, nor man a lifeboat without being covered with the waves. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I guess it wasn't everyday they see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by three kids. ~ Rick Riordan

Prepare the lifeboats, mates! The SS Sanity is capsizing! We're going down! ~ Nick Cutter

Flynn," Jeth hissed, crossing his arms. "This isn't the high seas. This is the middle of space. We don't have any lifeboats, and we don't need panic. We need solutions. ~ Mindee Arnett

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats. ~ Jean Kerr

Analogy and probability are not bedrock; they are lifeboats in an ocean of doubt, and sometimes they founder. So rhetoric tends to the passionate:we argue, not with surety, but as the shipwrecked clinging to the only thing they have. ~ Andrew J. Patrick

Sometimes love is not enough to keep a community together. There needs to be something more tangible, like fair housing, opportunities, and access to resources. Lifeboats and lifelines are not supposed to just be a way for us to get out. They should be ways to let us stay in and survive. And thrive. ~ Ibi Zoboi

Some captains made no attempt to save the lives of merchant seamen; others went so far as to tow lifeboats towards land. One u-boat commander sent the captain of a torpedoed ship three bottles of wine to ease the long row ashore. ~ Erik Larson

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging. ~ Molly Ivins

This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my own to drown in and all the lifeboats are taken and all the life preservers are broken and I don't know how to swim I can't swim I can't swim and it's getting so hard. It's getting so hard. It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard and no one will ever hear me in here. No one will ever hear me again. ~ Tahereh Mafi

Lifeboats are decked out on the sides of a ship waiting for when disaster strikes, faith on the other hand is a part of you for whenever. ~ Unarine Ramaru

Two blind people in two separate lifeboats meeting up in the Pacific–the coincidence seems a little far-fetched, no? ~ Yann Martel

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

Not a few stories are sinking ships, and many of us go down with these ships even when the lifeboats are bobbing all around us. ~ Rebecca Solnit

It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left. ~ Harry Redknapp

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others. ~ John Eldredge

In a daydream I used to have, all these places were points of happiness to me; all these places were lifeboats to my small drowning soul, for I would imagine myself entering and leaving them, and just that - entering and leaving over and over again - would see me through a bad feeling I did not have a name for. I only knew it felt a little like sadness but heavier than that. ~ Jamaica Kincaid

I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms. ~ Lemony Snicket

I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning. ~ Karen Marie Moning

The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If all the lifeboats were on the upper deck, then mostly first-class passengers survived? ~ Kate Alcott

The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship ... I see a real financial crisis coming for the United States. ~ Peter Schiff

Titanic got 14 nominations one per lifeboat. ~ Jim Mullen

Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful. ~ Dustin Hoffman

Ships capacity: 1,463
Passengers on board: 10,573
Lifeboats: 22
But then I remembered.
Ten of the lifeboats were missing ~ Ruta Sepetys

I suggest that the representation of women deserves a much higher consideration in our religious discourse. When words are presented as if they come directly from God, they can have monumental impact on our psyches, our spirits, our hearts, and our relationships. Women are given, in story at least, first place in the lifeboats, but often in more common circumstances we are consigned to the back of the bus. ~ Carol Lynn Pearson

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. ~ Rumi