Floundering Quotes

• 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.

  Ted Hughes

  Eye, Night, Orange

  Ted Hughes (2009). “The Hawk in the Rain”, p.37, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

  Matt Taibbi

  Successful, Evil, Stories

  "Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital". www.rollingstone.com. August 29, 2012.

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• 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.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Arriving, Reason

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1905). "El Filisteo: A Periodical of Protest"

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• Debo confesar que mi imaginación se niega a ver ningún tipo de submarino haciendo otra cosa que asfixiar a su tripulación y naufragar en el mar.

  H. G. Wells

  Sea, Imagination, Submarines

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Errors, Long

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• Los padres fundadores de Estados Unidos no pretendían eliminar la religión de la educación. Muchas de las mejores universidades de la nación fueron fundadas por evangelistas y líderes religiosos; pero muchas de ellas han perdido el concepto de los fundadores y se han convertido en instituciones laicas. Debido a esta actitud, la educación laica está dando tumbos y tambaleándose.

  Billy Graham

  Religious, Attitude, Father

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

  Duncan Green

  Failing, Inevitable, Learning By Doing

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• 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.

  Twyla Tharp

  Passion, Essence, Skills

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• 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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Forever, Geography, Lost

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.349, Random House

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• 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.

  Patti Smith

  Spiritual, Fall, Son

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.245, A&C Black

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• 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

  Khaled Hosseini

  Real, Home, Self

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.292, A&C Black

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• La industria musical atravesó una etapa muy extraña en 1977, especialmente en este país, con la aparición del punk rock. El punk era una respuesta rebelde -y justificada-, pero tenía muy poco que ver con la música, por lo que creó una atmósfera muy cargada pero aterradoramente vacilante que me pareció muy, muy descorazonadora. Para mí, la calidad musical siempre ha sido una parte importante del rock'n'roll, y obtener reconocimiento por ello ha sido durante mucho tiempo una ardua batalla. El punk parecía rock'n'roll sin música.

  Steve Winwood

  Country, Winning, Rocks

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• Aunque los Padres Flotantes no lo pretendían, ahora vemos que el gobierno representativo se convierte rápidamente en la dictadura del proletariado. Si dudas de esto, te felicito por no tener televisión.

  Fred Reed

  Padre, Gobierno, Duda

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• 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.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Significado, Responsabilidad, Pensamiento

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 11: "The Thinkers", p. 158, 1970.

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

  Kevin Spacey

  Shoes, Valleys, Comedy

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• Nadie quería tu baile, Nadie quería tu extraño brillo, tu vida ahogada y tu esfuerzo por salvarte, Pisando el agua, bailando la oscura confusión, Buscando algo que dar.

  Ted Hughes

  Dark, Giving, Dancing

  Ted Hughes (2009). "Birthday Letters", p.29, Faber & Faber

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• 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)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Devil, Atoms, Jargon

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.83, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Beatrice Warde

  Art, Humility, Self

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• 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.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dog, Air, People

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• 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.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Two

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.189, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Lauren Oliver

  Correr, Luchar, Significar

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