Quotes About Stranded

early and I don't want to get stuck there for the night. I ask Tricia if I can use her

You have caught me, sir, like a treen in a disabled space ship

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To a many-angled one, we impoverished entities who are stranded in three-plus-one dimensions are fairly harmless; nevertheless, even the inhabitants of flatland can inflict a nasty paper cut upon the unwary on occasion.

I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.

It is unacceptable for passengers to be stranded in planes on the tarmac for hours on end.

Many set themselves the aim of rescuing the indifferent and the lazy—and end up lost themselves. The flame within them gets dim with the passage of time. So, if you have the fire, run, since you never know when it may be doused, leaving you stranded in darkness.

We'd been adrift for eight days when the ninny tried to eat the monkey.

They were a hospitable couple and they made a point (I feel for religious reasons) of offering hospitality to frightened or stranded foreigners.

Leni stared down at the sea, rolling inexorably toward her. Nothing you did could hold back that rising tide. One mistake or miscalculation and you could be stranded or washed away. All you could do was protect yourself by reading the charts and being prepared and making smart choices.

His soul had flown on ahead of his body and left it stranded.

I sometimes avoid reading a news story when the victim is Asian, because I don't want to pay attention to the fact that no one else is paying attention. I don't want to care that no one else cares. Because I don't want to be left stranded in my rage.

But now it's like I'm not really here. I'm just a witness, wayward and alone.

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or the trunk, taken somewhere and stripped naked

You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.

They had no longboat, no firewood, and scant clothing.

The storm had stranded the castaways about seventy miles from the rest of the fleet, without food or wood or fresh water

The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods.

What helps us stay relevant is that we haven't really set out on this musical experience to reach a destination. We consider the whole thing a journey. So it's not like we stopped off at Rock Island and now we're stranded there. We actually just get onboard the boat and let the winds take us where it will.

Nobody can get across now! We'll have to stay here days and days, and we've got nothing to eat, and we'll freeze to death at night, and I didn't even tell my dad I was coming here, and I'll get a whipping when I get home!" Tom smiled thinly and tried to make a joke out of it. "I thought you were going to freeze to death," he said.

When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

With the quarantine and borders suddenly closing it could have meant suddenly being stranded on the other side of the planet. It's a shame I haven't been able to see my family in Australia but it never became an option. But certainly, when it's all over I will be heading back.