“Always look to the positive,and never drop your head,for the water will engulf us,if we do not dare to tread,so let's tread water.”

“Indonesia is just treading water when we are supposed to be bringing about change”

“Lord Maccon, being Lord Maccon and good at such things, then changed, right there in the Thames, from dog-paddling wolf to large man treading water. He did so flawlessly, so that his head never went under the water. Professor Lyall suspected him of practicing such maneuvers in the bathtub.”

“Getting fired,’ Tyler says, ‘is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives.”

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

“Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.”