Best Floundering Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Too many of us spend our lives incessantly running only to find ourselves completely lost because our running was driven by fear and not inspired by a destination.”

Source: Fruits Basket: The Complete Collection

“Therese frowned, floundering in a sea without direction or gravity, in which she knew only that she could mistrust her own impulses.”

Knowledge Gravity Direction Mistrust Floundering Impulses

Book:The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

“How lost to myself I have become.”

Self Awareness Searching Floundering

Book:The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.”

Has Beens Light Eye Night House Black Darkness Sea Sky Fields Wind Window Mad Rose Woods Hills Wet Orange Lenses Blades All Night Luminous New Places Emeralds Flexing Floundering

Book:The Hawk in the Rain

Source: The Hawk in the Rain

“After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.”

Comedy Shoes Stores Valleys Stand Up Comedy Floundering

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Kind Mean Would Be Decision Responsibility Steps Mankind Ought Dignity Majority Surrender Experiments Shoulders Cowardice First Steps Retreat Drowning Floundering

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk was rebellious-and justified in that response-but it had very little to do with music, and so it created a highly-charged but frighteningly floundering atmosphere that I found very, very disheartening. Musical quality for me has always been an important part of rock'n'roll-and winning recognition for that has long been an uphill battle all the way. Punk seemed like rock'n'roll utterly without the music.”

“Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt this, I congratulate you on not having a television.”

Ifs Government Turns Father Doubt Television Dictatorship Representatives Proletariat Representative Government Floundering

Author:Fred Reed

“I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home”

Years Real Self Feelings Home Felt Waiting My Own Someday Elsewhere Nothingness Exile Hollow Unfolding Real Self Proxy Floundering Life Unfolding

Book:And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.”

Humans Hard Lost Forever Characteristics Geography Inconvenient Floundering

Book:Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)

Source: Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)

“Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.”

Failing Inevitable Learning By Doing Floundering

Author:Duncan Green

“Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.”

Stories Evil Successful Definitions Firm Entity Multiple Equity Involving Eliminating Overhead Turnaround Private Equity Floundering

Author:Matt Taibbi

“I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.”

Literature Imagination Sea Refuse Crew My Imagination Submarines Suffocating Floundering

Author:H. G. Wells

“Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give.”

Giving Wanted Water Dark Effort Strange Dancing Drowning Turmoil Glitter Save Yourself Treading Floundering Treading Water

Book:Birthday letters

Source: Birthday letters

“Ectoplasmic plane? What the devil is that? (Simone) It’s jargon from those of us who are corporeally challenged. It’s the great beyond where we bounce into each other like floundering atoms. It’s really kind of gross – which is why I hang out with you. But only because you’re less gross than they are. (Jesse)”

Kind Devil Planes Hanging Out Atoms Gross Bounce Jargon Floundering

Book:Dream Chaser

Source: Dream Chaser

“And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to have everything together when really she's just floundering like the rest of us. Lindsay, who will bite at you if you even look in her direction the wrong way, like on of those tiny attack dogs that are always barking and snapping in the air before they're jerked backward on the chains that keep them in one place.”

People Ifs Way Looks Together Realizing Air Dog Tiny Chains Fearless Pretending Bites Terrified Wrong Way Snapping Floundering

Author:Lauren Oliver

“We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.”

Hands Spiritual Spirit Purpose Fall Given Liberty Rocks Danger Son Protect Projects Losing Missions Finance Preserves Revolutionary Complexity Rock And Roll Starvation Sustenance Vapid Floundering

Book:Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red. Red. Red. Dozens of them: black feathers coated thickly with crimson-colored paint, fluttering among the branches. Red means run.”

Mean Running Black Struggle Color Bird Red Paint Branches Dozen Feathers Nests Crimson Fluttering Splashing Floundering

Author:Lauren Oliver

“The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.”

Long Matter Success Achievement Errors Committed Range Road To Success Floundering

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.”

Source: Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf

“America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.”

America Religion Father Lost Nations Religious Attitude Leader Concepts Institutions University Founders Secular Founding Stumbling Evangelists Religious Leaders Floundering

Author:Billy Graham

“Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.”

World Two Passion Creative Skills Essence Crafts Lifts Combining Creative Life Floundering

Author:Twyla Tharp

“Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.”

Mind Art Self Design Humility Fine Demand Conscious Experiments Self Conscious Printing Fine Arts Typography Floundering

Author:Beatrice Warde

“Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.”

Men Reason Ability Reasoning Absurdity Arriving Floundering

Book:The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest

Source: The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest