Stranded Quotes

• We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it

  Bob Dylan

  Deny

  Song: Visions of Johanna

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• Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

  Steven Wright

  Book, Islands, Desert

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• It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.

  W. Clement Stone

  Hands, Interesting, Problem

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesn’t let us go so easily. Sometimes you go back again to the place you’ve just come from, stop and close your eyes, and realize that not a second has passed, and time just leaves you there, stranded, in the darkness

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Eye, People, Forever

  Banana Yoshimoto (2006). “Hardboiled: & Hard Luck”, p.24, Grove Press

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• Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

  Owen Feltham

  Humanity, Sailing, Ships

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• To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long, to every one of you who worry that you are stranded somewhere on the wintry plains of life and have wrecked your handcart in the process, we call out "Jehovah's unrelenting refrain, "My hand is stretched out still" (Isaiah 5:25: 9:17,21). "...His mercy endureth forever, and His hand is stretched out still. His is the pure love of Christ, the charity that never faileth, that compassion which endures even when all other strength disappears".

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Compassion, Thinking, Hands

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• A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Procrastination, Rocks, Sea

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• But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.

  Rachel Cohn

  Differences, Choices, Ghost

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.50, Egmont UK

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• Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme

  Bil Keane

  Children, Love Is, Feelings

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• It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.

  Robert Goolrick

  Heart, Grace, Skins

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• People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

  Carrie Fisher

  Beach, People, Bird

  "The Skinny On My New Life" by Carrie Fisher, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 29, 2011.

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• Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

  John Knowles

  Peace, Children, Men

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

  William Arthur Ward

  Optimistic, Islands, Infinite

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

  Al Yankovic

  Self, Gas Stations, Use

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• ...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature living in the cave?" Tiara said. "Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around." "What happened?" Miss Ohio asked. "I don't know. My parents got divorced in the middle of season two and we lost our TiVo.

  Libba Bray

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

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• Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.

  Douglas Adams

  Years, Long, Mind

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• Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

  Christian Bauman

  Change, Writing, Persistence

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• Alice of Wonderland was stranded on Earth.

  Frank Beddor

  Wonderland, Earth

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• One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Age, Generations, Youth

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

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• You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

  Al Yankovic

  Relationship, Towers, Bungee

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• No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.

  Greg Egan

  Growing Up, Lying, Maturity

  Greg Egan (1995). “Distress: A Novel”, Harper Prism

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• I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the store....You deserve better.

  Michael Moore

  Inspirational, Games, Islands

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• The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

  Mason Cooley

  Past, Avant Garde

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• I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.

  Norman Cousins

  Men, Color, Opposites

  Norman Cousins (1991). “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”, Bantam

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• If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

  George C. Scott

  Islands, Would Be, Needs

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