“Be careful… not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they’re actually quicksand.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, we had a quicksand box in the backyard. I was an only child...eventually. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He was quicksand, and I was drowning. Didn’t even fight it. Just gave in.” — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out. — Richard Shelby Copy Share Image
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn’t work. The harder you fight,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand… — John Updike Copy Share Image
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if… — John Keats Copy Share Image
To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a. rock and another in… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was… — Kaley Cuoco Copy Share Image
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“It took Pueblo a few seconds to take in his surroundings. The first thing he realised was that he felt bruised all… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
There is not a single loophole or curveball or open trench to fall into for the man or woman who walks the… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
You're playing and you think everything is going fine. Then one thing goes wrong. And then another. And another. You try to… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
“When I picked up a book that I had read many times before, the words opened themselves up again. What I was… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
“Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I don't go on Reddit, because I know that'll be quicksand and I won't be able to get out. — Ross Duffer Copy Share Image
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid we had a sandbox. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually.” — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Love is like quicksand - the deeper you fall in it the harder it is to get out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
