Quotes about Sinking

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. Votes: 6

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. Votes: 6

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. Votes: 6

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. Votes: 6

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. Votes: 6

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship. Votes: 6

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships. Votes: 6

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing. Votes: 6

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet. Votes: 6

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in. Votes: 6

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago. Votes: 6

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: 6

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it. Votes: 6

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking. Votes: 4

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell! Votes: 4

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking. Votes: 4

If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning. Votes: 4

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby. Votes: 4

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day. Votes: 4

Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities. Votes: 4

People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race. Votes: 4

Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart. Votes: 4

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Votes: 4

Yes, there is no denying it, any longer, it is not you who are dead, but all the others. So you get up and go to your mother, who thinks she is alive. That's my impression. But now I shall have to get myself out of this ditch. How joyfully I would vanish here, sinking deeper and deeper under the rains. Votes: 4

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend? Votes: 3

There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work. Votes: 2

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact. Votes: 2

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. Votes: 2

If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It's frightening. Votes: 2

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters. Votes: 2

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day. Votes: 2

You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach. Votes: 2

The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator. Votes: 2

When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees. Votes: 2

In theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don't want to start sinking slowly... I want to learn, blah blah blah. Then I think about actually going and sitting in classes and, man, it sounds terrible. Votes: 2

Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral to a functioning economy. As our living systems deteriorate, traditional forecasting and business economics become the equivalent of house rules on a sinking cruise ship. Votes: 2

I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep muddy water and started screaming and sinking. My mom ran up, and I was just standing there a foot away and wouldn't stick out my hand to pull him up. So I'm probably not the best person to take on a camping trip. Votes: 2

As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy. Votes: 2

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, your end of the boat is sinking. Votes: 1

Your side of the boat is sinking! Votes: 0

You don't integrate with a sinking ship. Votes: 0

Grief is like sinking, like being buried. Votes: 0

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate. Votes: 0

If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking. Votes: 0

What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship. Votes: 0

The more thinking minds, the less sinking world! Votes: 0

I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand. Votes: 0

Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking. Votes: 0

I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest. Votes: 0

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers. Votes: 0

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too. Votes: 0

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand Votes: 0

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness. Votes: 0

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater. Votes: 0

Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory Votes: 0

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking. Votes: 0

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming. Votes: 0

When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself. Votes: 0

The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. Votes: 0

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt. Votes: 0

She still craved the fantasy while reality was busy sinking in its sharp teeth. Votes: 0

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation. Votes: 0

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing. Votes: 0

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking Votes: 0

The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling. Votes: 0

Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.' Votes: 0

It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude. Votes: 0

People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching. Votes: 0

Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking. Votes: 0

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad. Votes: 0

War did not just level, it plowed the field, raising the muck and sinking the stubble. Votes: 0

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost. Votes: 0

It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking. Votes: 0

Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships Votes: 0

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. Votes: 0

I do not want my voice to go out into the air while my heart is sinking. Votes: 0

Don't you see all the people sinking down? Don't you care? Are you gonna let them drown? Votes: 0

Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers. Votes: 0

Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings. Votes: 0

O Christian! do not falter, The harvest field is white, And many souls are sinking Into eternal night. Votes: 0

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing. Votes: 0

When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking. Votes: 0

The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit. Votes: 0

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion. Votes: 0

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship Votes: 0

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again. Votes: 0

I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid. Votes: 0

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard. Votes: 0

love meget lost in mebut bewareside effects includea lot of shivering, babya lot of drinking, maybea lot of sinking, baby Votes: 0

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship. Votes: 0

...you are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed... Votes: 0

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart. Votes: 0

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. Votes: 0

Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles! Votes: 0

You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat. Votes: 0

You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking. Votes: 0

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again. Votes: 0

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. Votes: 0

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry? Votes: 0

Like a weighted diver sinking in an oceanof mediocrity, under the pressure of men withgelatin eyes, rubber voices, spiral-shapedconvictions, non-committal souls and non-committinghands ... Votes: 0

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back. Votes: 0

Would it be enough to rock on a stormless sea with each our separate memories tuned to the state of the sinking sun? 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

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead. Votes: 0

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him. Votes: 0

Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand. Votes: 0

On Jesus' rock, my life abounds; all other floors are slippery grounds. His love for me, is mercy band; any other love is sinking sand. Votes: 0

Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries. Votes: 0

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read. Votes: 0

Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices. Votes: 0

If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies! Votes: 0

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years. Votes: 0

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win. Votes: 0

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief. Votes: 0

I love dipping into dreams and sinuously sinking into sleep. It's the freest place to be. The possibilities are limitless and my imagination becomes a weightless wonder. Votes: 0

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again. Votes: 0

Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise. Votes: 0

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships Votes: 0

Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism. Votes: 0

The literary scene is a kind of Medusa's raft, small and sinking, and one's instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers. Votes: 0

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it. Votes: 0

When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick. Votes: 0

The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job." Votes: 0

I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward. Votes: 0

Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking. Votes: 0

Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation... Votes: 0

Never be too angry beyond repairs. Anger is nothing good to be part of your tributes. Are you angry with someone? The sun is sinking, just drop it now. Votes: 0

Bones, sinking like stones, all that we've fought forHomes, places we've grown, all of us are done forAnd we live in a beautiful worldYeah we do, yeah we do Votes: 0

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime Votes: 0

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke. Votes: 0

Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed. Votes: 0

The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower. Votes: 0

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts. Votes: 0

The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so. Votes: 0

The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about it, but look at the consequences: demographics; aging populations; the sinking population of Europe, Japan; immigration. It's incredible. Votes: 0

We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them. Votes: 0

When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep--it feels like sinking deep underwater Votes: 0

You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest. Votes: 0

On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. Votes: 0

You used to make me feel like I could walk on waterNow most nights I'm just sinking down and downYou're the reason why I can't listen to the same songs I used to Votes: 0

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking Votes: 0

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. Votes: 0

Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age. Votes: 0

Things Isabella Wouldn't Care About: - Titanic sinking again. - Metror striking Earth and landing directly on top of world's most innocent panda. - Titanic sinking again and this time the entire crew is puppies. Votes: 0