Quotes about Sink

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia. Votes: 4

You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none. Votes: 4

Sink, suffer, self-destruct Rise stronger, reconstruct Votes: 3

Sink twice before you strike out for land. Votes: 3

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in. Votes: 3

Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever. Votes: 3

Love the vocal on Lightning. Overall great EP. We Sink is a favorite as well. Votes: 3

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye. Votes: 3

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine Votes: 3

Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree. Votes: 3

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind. Votes: 3

Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity. Votes: 3

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. Votes: 3

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss Votes: 3

When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together. Votes: 3

What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that. Votes: 3

I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude. Votes: 3

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. Votes: 3

Sink or swim! You never really feel ready, there is always sometime more that your mind tells you you should be doing. However, the trick is to be able to show up and perform no matter what the circumstance. Votes: 3

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and guide would be gone; the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard! Votes: 3

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. Votes: 2

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. Votes: 2

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. Votes: 2

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. Votes: 2

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board. Votes: 2

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. Votes: 2

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. Votes: 2

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands. Votes: 2

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise. Votes: 2

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water. Votes: 2

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. Votes: 2

I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet. Votes: 2

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. Votes: 2

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be. Votes: 2

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. Votes: 2

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs. Votes: 2

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. Votes: 2

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone. Votes: 2

As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful. Votes: 2

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right. Votes: 2

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. Votes: 2

I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced. Votes: 2

As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float - and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast. Votes: 2

I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's. Votes: 1

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends. Votes: 1

Loose lips sink ships. Votes: 0

Great minds sink alike, right? Votes: 0

Little leaks sink the ship. Votes: 0

Without sarcasm I sink into chaos. Votes: 0

Live or die, sink or swim. Votes: 0

Stop and sink into this timeless moment! Votes: 0

The higher I get the lower I sink. Votes: 0

I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire! Votes: 0

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. Votes: 0

Under loves heavy burden do I sink.--Romeo Votes: 0

A day may sink or save a realm. Votes: 0

We rise in glory as we sink in pride. Votes: 0

Then sink to your nose in a bubble bath. Votes: 0

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat. Votes: 0

Do well and right and let the world sink. Votes: 0

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink. Votes: 0

The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together. Votes: 0

An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something. Votes: 0

Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink. Votes: 0

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material. Votes: 0

I can't say why some memories float and other sink. Votes: 0

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike! Votes: 0

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul! Votes: 0

I cannot go to sleep with dishes in the sink. Votes: 0

You can sink so fast that you think you are flying. Votes: 0

Haruhi: This story has everything but the kitchen sink in it. Votes: 0

I want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into. Votes: 0

Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free, Votes: 0

Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think. Votes: 0

Love can climb the highest mountain or sink to the lowest depth Votes: 0

If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs. Votes: 0

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! Votes: 0

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace Votes: 0

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low. Votes: 0

Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink. Votes: 0

You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts. Votes: 0

With love, we rise; with hate, we sink! Always remember this golden law! Votes: 0

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. Votes: 0

If you are not rising with ethichs, you will sink with every rise! Votes: 0

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. Votes: 0

A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew. Votes: 0

If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched. Votes: 0

If I can get David Haye , he will sink, one hundred per cent! Votes: 0

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim Votes: 0

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time. Votes: 0

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me. Votes: 0

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. Votes: 0

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down. Votes: 0

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator. Votes: 0

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more. Votes: 0

I`d rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else Votes: 0

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! Votes: 0

The times are a-changing and if we don't we will sink like a stone. Votes: 0

The girls are beautiful in Hollywood - and enough silicon to caulk a sink. Votes: 0

What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink? Votes: 0

It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink. Votes: 0

What we've got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we'll sink. Votes: 0

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it. Votes: 0

I peed in the sink. Why? Because there was already someone in the shower. Votes: 0

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink. Votes: 0

I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer. Votes: 0

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions. Votes: 0

If your ideas are good they rise, and if they're a bit crap they sink. Votes: 0

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Votes: 0

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim. Votes: 0

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink. Votes: 0

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace. Votes: 0

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. Votes: 0

You cannot sink someone else's end of the boat and still keep your own afloat Votes: 0

I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow. Votes: 0

Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos. Votes: 0

As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. Votes: 0

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. Votes: 0

Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station. Votes: 0

The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away. Votes: 0

Relationship is only two on board. It has to sink when there is one extra passenger Votes: 0

Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination. Votes: 0

Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if you use a radiator hose to fix your kitchen sink. Votes: 0

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing. Votes: 0

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet. Votes: 0

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink. Votes: 0

It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ's Atonement shines. Votes: 0

I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song. Votes: 0

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Votes: 0

When you've got a mountain to climb you may as well throw everything into the kitchen sink. Votes: 0

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. Votes: 0

Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge. Votes: 0

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace. Votes: 0

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. Votes: 0

They could've thrown a kitchen sink into the box and one of the guys would've headed it. Votes: 0

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words. Votes: 0

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there. Votes: 0

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand. Votes: 0

Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life? Votes: 0

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside. Votes: 0

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into. Votes: 0

I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right? Votes: 0

Ego vos mergam, nec merger a vobis. I sink you, that I will not be sunk by you. Votes: 0

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty. Votes: 0

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. Votes: 0

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. Votes: 0

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. Votes: 0

I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice. Votes: 0

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial. Votes: 0

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art. Votes: 0

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings. Votes: 0

Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps. Votes: 0

I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to. Votes: 0

I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell. Votes: 0

when one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove ... Votes: 0

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun. Votes: 0

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. Votes: 0

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune. Votes: 0

When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink. Votes: 0

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into. Votes: 0

He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it. Votes: 0

I've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere. Votes: 0

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress. Votes: 0

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves Votes: 0

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that. Votes: 0

God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles. Votes: 0

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws. Votes: 0

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm. Votes: 0

I want to go to the Maldives before they sink, but just because it's the most beautiful place on earth. Votes: 0

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. Votes: 0

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success. Votes: 0

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim. Votes: 0

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery. Votes: 0

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become. Votes: 0

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair. Votes: 0

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink. Votes: 0

My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here. Votes: 0

I think the dream role is getting the opportunity to really sink my teeth into something and transform in the role. Votes: 0

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection. Votes: 0

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. Votes: 0

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. Votes: 0

In the twilight of the morning, all life silently waits for the sunrise. Sun must rise for the darkness to sink! Votes: 0

Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it. Votes: 0

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone. Votes: 0

I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem. Votes: 0

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches. Votes: 0

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. Votes: 0

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude. Votes: 0

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. Votes: 0

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust. Votes: 0

As hipster chicks age, and their skin starts to sag, tramp stamps sink below waistbands, like the sun slipping into the sea... Votes: 0

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. Votes: 0

I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations. Votes: 0

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures. Votes: 0

It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions. Votes: 0

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in. Votes: 0

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it. Votes: 0

They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink. Votes: 0

It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall. Votes: 0

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will. Votes: 0

Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification. Votes: 0

The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps Votes: 0

I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone Votes: 0

These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all. Votes: 0

The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare. Votes: 0

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower. Votes: 0

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War) Votes: 0

We're going to listen music in my room.' 'Fine,' his dad said from underneath the sink. 'Just don't get anybody pregnant. Votes: 0

At the end of a dinner at my house, my kitchen sink is filled with dishes and there's nothing pretty about the garbage. Votes: 0

I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools. Votes: 0

I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in. Votes: 0

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink. Votes: 0

I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything. Votes: 0

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season. Votes: 0

Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die. Votes: 0

Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever. Votes: 0

In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends. Votes: 0

The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink. Votes: 0

In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks! Votes: 0

Imagine the week ahead unfolding in an ever-increasing flow of miracles. Allow the image to sink into your heart. Receive it with a big yes! Votes: 0

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece. Votes: 0

The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization. Votes: 0

She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind. Votes: 0

I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances. Votes: 0

The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, 'We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees.' Votes: 0

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science. Votes: 0

After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim. Votes: 0

Charles Wang, owner of the New York Islanders, serves as something of a cautionary tale in terms of how heavy owner involvement can sink a franchise. Votes: 0

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus. Votes: 0

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and others. Votes: 0

...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch. Votes: 0

... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together. Votes: 0

To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor. Votes: 0

Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair... Votes: 0

To wait on love is to tie a weight on your heart and slowly drown. Why sink when you can fly by freely giving love away? Votes: 0

To wait on love is to tie a weight on your heart and slowly drown. Why sink when you can fly by freely giving love away~? Votes: 0

Often with film, I find that you're just really getting to know a person. They're just starting to sink in, and then you wrap the film. Votes: 0

They need only to look at him, hear his name, and the last of reason goes up in smoke. They sink into a state of befuddlement. Votes: 0

With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead. Votes: 0

In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in Batman: The Animated Series. Votes: 0

I made 'True Detective' like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything. Votes: 0

All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes. Votes: 0

Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas. Votes: 0

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered. Votes: 0

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink. Votes: 0

We may faint and we may sink Feel the pain and near the brink But the dark begins to shrink When you find the one who knows Votes: 0

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse. Votes: 0

She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike. Votes: 0

We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales. Votes: 0

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray. Votes: 0

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way. Votes: 0

What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink. Votes: 0

The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don't sink. Votes: 0

As marriage was woman's business, unmarried women, though doubtless unfortunate, must simply be considered as business failures: harsh, doubtless, but in tune with the sink-or-swim capitalist times. Votes: 0

I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything. Votes: 0

I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that's beckoning to you. Votes: 0

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed. Votes: 0

Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears. Votes: 0

I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink. Votes: 0

The scrub sink...is the place where doctors wash their hands after they operate so that they won't get flecks of your vital organs on their Lexus upholstery. Votes: 0

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting. Votes: 0

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization. Votes: 0

By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds. Votes: 0

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting Votes: 0

Isn't my fur stole pitiful? How unsuccessful can a girl look? People think I'm wearing anchovies. The worst of it is, I trapped these under my own sink. Votes: 0

When I masturbate I fantasize about having my own apartment. I used to think about Cindy Crawford now I think about leaving a dish in the sink overnight. Votes: 0

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side. Votes: 0

I've heard some readers saying they wished the story was longer, and I completely understand that desire - we all like to sink into a nice, long novel. Votes: 0

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight. Votes: 0

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into. Votes: 0

I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedimes- my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like 'Fargo Votes: 0

Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on. Votes: 0

I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose. Votes: 0

We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink. Votes: 0

When you hire a plumber because no hot water is coming out of the kitchen sink faucet, you need to go to the water heater, not the faucet. Votes: 0

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any Votes: 0

...human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory... Votes: 0

Many people who became successful were once first time global failures. But because they didn't give up on their dreams, failure could not sink them. They triumphed at last! Votes: 0

Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later. Votes: 0

There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all! Votes: 0

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess. Votes: 0

Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh. Votes: 0

The DS represents a critical moment for Nintendo's success over the next two years. If it succeeds, we rise to the heavens, if it fails, we sink into hell. Votes: 0

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep. Votes: 0

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes. Votes: 0

At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage. Votes: 0

After two rounds of chemo, I've started to notice, slowly, but surely, my hair has started to appear more regularly in my shower drain, sink drain, pillowcase and comb. Votes: 0

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care! Votes: 0

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea. Votes: 0

When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow. Votes: 0

Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours. Votes: 0

When the U.S. government stops wasting our resources by trying to maintain the price of gold, its price will sink to...$6 an ounce rather than the current $35 an ounce. Votes: 0

I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh. Votes: 0

First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little. Votes: 0

Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. Votes: 0

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves. Votes: 0

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature. Votes: 0

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine? Votes: 0

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. Votes: 0

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. Votes: 0

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. Votes: 0

I was making choices that were very specific: Make a living, take care of your family, and if you can, find some movies that you can sink your teeth into. Votes: 0

When I go home to visit, they never treat me like a celebrity. They still treat me like TJ. If I leave dishes in the sink, they'll let me know. Votes: 0

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature. Votes: 0

Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture. Votes: 0

Rock. . . is the expression of elemental passions...In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe. Votes: 0

Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach. Votes: 0

When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse. Votes: 0

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer. Votes: 0

If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else. ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary. Votes: 0

The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood. Votes: 0

To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves. Votes: 0

The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface. Votes: 0

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting. Votes: 0

Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day. Votes: 0

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank? Votes: 0

...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27) Votes: 0

An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality. Votes: 0

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. Votes: 0

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival. Votes: 0

Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion. Votes: 0

I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator. Votes: 0

I had people telling me I was the best and when it would sink in, I'd feel like I'd have to push things further, otherwise I wasn't worthy of their praise. Votes: 0

You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled. Votes: 0

gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27) Votes: 0

I start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme. Votes: 0

The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.' Votes: 0

Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion. Votes: 0

I dont theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that shes thinking, Votes: 0

My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation. Votes: 0

Should I ever again sink into illness, I'm sure I'll remember Eldric. I'll remember he cared for me. I'll remember that someone had at least taken the time to touch my face. Votes: 0

It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight. Votes: 0

It really kind of looks like now that John Kerry is on his way to the presidential nomination. The only thing that can sink John Kerry now is an Al Gore endorsement. Votes: 0

Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink. Votes: 0

Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence. Votes: 0

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim Votes: 0

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself. Votes: 0

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part. Votes: 0

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again. Votes: 0

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be. Votes: 0

My kitchen has a wood-burning oven, a large worktable, and windows all around, including one above the sink. I think whoever is washing the dishes needs to have a lot of beauty around. Votes: 0

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim Votes: 0

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian. Votes: 0

Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images... that sink into countless strata in my mind. Votes: 0

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue. Votes: 0

Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a bad film, and a bad score - so it's said - can't sink a good one. Votes: 0

A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather than history because most rapists are men, aren't they? Votes: 0

Part of our goal, in the episodes moving forward, is to deepen and dimensionalize every other character, to get into their relationships with each other, expand that stuff and really sink our teeth in. Votes: 0

Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink. Votes: 0

[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the rest in virtue, must tend to sink below the average. Votes: 0

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division. Votes: 0

I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath. Votes: 0

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel. Votes: 0

We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence Are harvested by accredited experience Our fondest memories soon turn to poison And only oblivion remains in season. Votes: 0

The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink! Votes: 0

If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where I'm going, I'll have to keep on. That's living. Votes: 0

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness. Votes: 0

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness. Votes: 0

Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth. Votes: 0

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether. Votes: 0

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. Votes: 0

We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives. Votes: 0

There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action. Votes: 0

My kitchen sink has no truck attached. My love needs a waterproof suitcase in these Days of Desert and Dessert. Who are you going to come running to when the Ice Cream Man melts? Votes: 0

Life isn't a lazy cruise on some endless, calm, and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storm Votes: 0

One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year by year, Till, when one reaches sixty-five, How many care we're still alive? Votes: 0

The Dunya is like the ocean and our heart is like the ship. If a ship allows the water to enter, it will sink. Just like when we allow the Dunya to enter our heart. Votes: 0

For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink. Votes: 0

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with Votes: 0

A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave. Votes: 0

The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink. Votes: 0

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created. Votes: 0

The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach. Votes: 0

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station. Votes: 0

At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower. Votes: 0

Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence. Votes: 0

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with. Votes: 0

I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl. Votes: 0

If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor. Votes: 0