Stranded Quotations

'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.

Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.

Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

One of the stranded mariners even told the sailors that other boats had passed by without stopping to help.

My concern is that there is going to be a convergence of immigration-related bills and the result will be complex and confusing and the session could end with the bills stranded in a conference committee.

Many of them left in a hurry and either forgot their prescriptions or their prescriptions have run out. No one anticipated they were going to be stranded here this long or that they would be unable to get their medications (through prescription transfers).

Mr. President, thousands of people are stranded in New Orleans, still waiting for help. Some are wondering if America will help them or if they need to turn to Mexico. Many are saying that the government has let them down, that they're being treated like animals, not human beings. What do you say to them?

maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to play one day)and maggie discovered a shell that sangso sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,andmillie befriended a stranded starwho's rays five languid fingers were;and molly was chased by a horrible thingwhich raced sideways while blowing bubbles:andmay came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)it's always ourselves we find in the sea.

Because of the difficult weather conditions and because of the volume of people Hartsfield serves, we are taking measures to help prevent stranded passengers.

What we have here is a hybrid of two molecules that are extremely sensitive to outside signals: single stranded DNA, which serves as the 'detector,' and a carbon nanotube, which functions as 'transmitter,' ... Put the two together and they become an extremely versatile type of sensor, capable of finding tiny amounts of a specific molecule.

Hurricane Katrina is George Bush's Monica Lewinsky. One difference, and I'll say this, the only difference is this: That tens of thousands of people weren't stranded in Monica Lewinsky's vagina. That is the only difference.

We're poor people who live here and we don't know where to go. The situation is tough. We'd like to know specifically what they're going to do and not leave us stranded on the street.

Some of the stranded passengers from both the sides will cross the Line of Control (LoC) on Monday.

Otherwise we have stranded gas, nowhere to go. So connecting to the pipeline is absolutely critical to raising funding and moving ahead with larger elements of the project.

Our first priority is life-saving missions to get all the people that are victims that are stranded in New Orleans out as soon as possible and then start our life-sustaining missions, which are getting water, ice, food to all the victims and making sure they can continue their lives.

I think it's great. It's a good idea because a lot of people get stranded out on the street and they need help. A lot of people don't know anybody.

We're urging people to stay off the roads if they don't have to go. We've got a lot of stranded cars. It makes for delays in clearing the roads.

We had cyclones equivalent to what weather service here would consider a tropical storm. Three times those things rolled up and pumped out a lot of water. We were stranded in the city.

We can't give games away like this. We stranded 11 runners. We haven't handled success. This team will never be successful if we can't go on a run.

We had way too many opportunities that we didn't cash in on. We stranded runners and made too many mistakes.

The fact of the matter is that there was no definitive plan to remove Canadians before Katrina hit and now there are Canadians stranded and fighting for their lives,

There are no fuel supplies, ... You can't buy gasoline at will to get in and out. You may end up stranded on the highway.

What if it was a stranded motorist getting shot in the chest?

We learned a little from watching Jacques Chirac and watching Tony Blair walking the halls in Singapore, ... If we want to compete, we're going to be smart. It's got to be a coordinated effort so we know we have support at all levels and nobody's stranded out there.

We left so many base runners stranded in scoring position.

We're just a place where people get stranded in storms.

We stranded a lot of base runners tonight. Pat (Gonzales) finally got that big hit with the bases loaded.

We stranded a lot of runners. We had the bases loaded in the first and didn't do anything.

At the end of last week we learned that the government of Syria has agreed to receive the group of 181 Palestinian refugees stranded at the Iraq-Jordanian border. We have not been informed that other Palestinians will be allowed into Syria.

We say, hey, this happens to a lot of guys out there. Not that that improves the situation for the individual, but it normalizes it. We let you know that you are not on a stranded island with this issue.

We've had passengers stranded on taxiways for longer than that. I think it's really going to be a session for the secretary to browbeat people and really deflect blame from the Department of Transportation and the FAA.

We went over to Chalmette one day where they desperately needed help, and we were turned away because some inmates escaped. Who cares? Why should that stop us from going in there? That parish (St. Bernard) estimated there were 7,500 stranded in their homes. Nobody's been able to talk to them, and we get turned away.

We did a good job of putting the ball in play. We showed pretty good patience at times, though we stranded a few runners.

When Michael Brown admitted to reporters that he didn't know thousands of survivors were stranded at the New Orleans convention center without food or water, even though TV journalists had been reporting that fact for hours, his appearance before us today became inevitable.

Alaska's gas has been stranded because the economics weren't there to support development, ... But now that's changed.

They say in this, for example, ... that they will get back to any consumer within 60 days. Can you imagine being stranded in a foreign country, or even in Chicago without your bags and calling up and they're going to tell you they'll get back to you in 60 days?

They told me they ran out of volunteers. That means a couple hundred disabled veterans are stranded here with no way to get to the hospital for treatment.

Sadly, as is the case with many stranded whales and dolphins, a combination of factors was likely to be the cause of death. Those factors include severe dehydration, some muscle damage, and reduction in kidney function. The animal, once entering the North Sea, would not have been able to feed, and this is the likely cause of the dehydration.

You need to find a safe place to be. It is not safe to find yourself stranded on the highway. Get to the highest ground or the highest building in your area.

I left two of my kids behind. I talked to them; they were stranded in a hotel, but I hope they got out and went to Houston.

I'm on call one weekend out of every month. Whenever any law enforcement agency needs help, they'll call Crisis Intervention. We do everything from counseling victims to providing help that is beyond what law enforcement does, like stranded motorists who are out of gas. We give them 10 gallons and send them down the road. Sometimes we'll get people a hotel room, especially people who have lost their homes and the Red Cross hasn't been able to respond yet. Whatever we can do to help.

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.

As we're talking today we haven't seen any diversions, but we're getting near to that point where the risk is much greater. As you get closer to July, you'll have customers who remember what happened five years ago who were stranded without service making other arrangements.

Once again we couldn't execute. We had six or eight stranded runners. We got the runners on base and then couldn't produce.

around two dozen stranded passengers have crossed into our side. They are being sent home.

It was good to see things finally happen for this team because they've been working hard to get it to happen. I think we've been hounded with a little bad luck this year. We've left lots of runners stranded in lots of innings in lots of our games. But finally everything came together (in the sixth) inning.

It was nice to see us come out again (offensively). We've been swinging the bats well. We sent six batters up in the first and pushed two runs across. We had runners stranded in every inning but the fifth, so we had opportunities. I'm really pleased with our performance.

The girls found a way to win, and that's good to see. I was happy to see us get some base hits with runners on base because we have been leaving too many people stranded this season.

The first couple of days we were finding people, ... A lot of people were stranded. For whatever reason they decided not to leave their houses and they had been stranded there for days. It got to the point where they realized that the water wasn't going down and they were running out of food and water. It was extremely hot - it still is - and there wasn't any power. People were saying, 'Save us.'

These poor black people were left stranded in the city when federal government had resources readily available and they didn't deliver the resources and I think people died because of this and these are tough questions that need to be answered.

It's supposed to come in on Saturday, whatever, but it doesn't matter. If it comes in early, like a little bit, we could be stranded there. I was talking to my parents last night, joking around with them, but they were like, don't joke about that, it's not funny.

It's kind of hard to leave guys stranded at third base. I was trying to get outs. If he scored, so what? Luckily things worked out fine that inning.

We had the bases loaded in both games several times and didn't score like we're capable of doing. In the second game, we gave up three runs early and just never got the bats going. We left runners stranded all over the place.

We will use the money raised to purchase phone cards so these injured soldiers who are stranded in hospital can call home.

Through prayer, we look for ways to understand the arbitrary harm left by this storm and the mystery of undeserved suffering, ... And in our search, we are reminded that God's purposes are sometimes impossible to know here on earth. Yet ever as we are humbled by forces we cannot explain, we take comfort in the knowledge that no one is ever stranded beyond God's care.

It's like when FEMA wasn't really that creative, and the water was rising and people were stranded, ... Once again, people are being stranded and businesses are starting to die.

It shows up a fundamental shortcoming in the act. A different mechanism needs to be introduced so users are not left stranded in this way, which is what has happened here.

It's going to be very confused. It's already stranded twice. The poor creature doesn't know where to go.

I'd hate to be stranded on a desert island, unless it were Hawaii, but I'd certainly enjoy seeing these films over and over until rescued.

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

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