Carsten Jensen Quotes

Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.

Carsten Jensen

• Drag
• Drowning

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Time
  • Ordinary

• Anderson [Cooper]first of all, in case anybody's wondering because they'll somehow read my mind after this broadcast ... I find those comments to be disgusting and reprehensible, and I'm really glad that he apologized.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Mind
  • Wonder
  • Glad

• I'd ask people to keep in mind the idea that if you really understand something, it's even more important for you to consider the possibility of your wrongness. Even if it takes someone dumber than you to point that out.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.

  

  Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
  • Fun
  • Environment
  • Raining

• And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Love
  • Power
  • Man

• Dior makes the best lip glosses going. I'm nuts about them, especially the clear one with the silver sparkles. I got addicted to DiorShow Mascara, too. It makes you look like you're wearing false eyelashes. It's the only one that rivals Maybelline.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Clear
  • Lips
  • Silver

• The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over, and in which they may get themselves ready to say "Amen" at the last, with all their hearts and souls and strength.

  

  William Mountford
  • Heart
  • Lasts
  • Ready

• After tea, when both Mrs Fisher and Lady Caroline had disappeared again—it was quite evident that nobody wanted her—she was more dejected than ever, overwhelmed by the discrepancy between the splendour outside her, the warm, teeming beauty and self-sufficiency of nature, and the blank emptiness of her heart.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Emptiness

• I'm not reclusive. I'm out and about.

  

  Steven A. Cohen
  • Out
  • Reclusive

• Marching onward, marching onward Marching to that lovely tune Marching onward, marching onward Happy as a bird in June Sliding onward, sliding onward Listen to that rag Hop and skip now do that slow, oh Do that slow drag Dance slowly, prance slowly Now you hear that pretty rag Dance slowly, prance slowly Now you do the real slow drag Waltz slowly, waltz slowly Listen to the ragtime Hop and skip Now do the slow, oh, do the slow drag

  

  Scott Joplin
  • Real
  • Bird
  • Jazz

• A man is thrown down on his back and three or four men sit on his arms and legs and hold him down and either a gun barrel or a rifle barrel or a carbine barrel or a stick as big as a belaying pin … is simply thrust into his jaws … and then water is poured onto his face, down his throat and nose … until the man gives some sign of giving in or becomes unconscious.… His suffering must be that of a man who is drowning, but who cannot drown.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Suffering
  • Arms
  • Drowning

• No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Change
  • Provide
  • Traditions

• Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Cancer
  • Grandfather
  • My Dad

• Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.

  

  Carsten Jensen
  • Drag
  • Drowning