When somebody starts going down, rats start leaving the sinking ship. — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
“If on a sinking ship out at sea, the moral law is to always help save women & children first...Why can't we… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“Unless it is relevant and accurate, knowledge can be the sinking ship the fool insists is sea-worthy, because knowledge often masquerades as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings. — Nancy Dunnan Copy Share Image
How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry? — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“In all the heroic tales, dying soldiers saw their lives pass before their eyes. No, Martin realized. The memories were just running… — J.P. Moore Copy Share Image
“As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like they know how to sail but… — Donal O'Callaghan Copy Share Image
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Compounding the horror, German officials committed an act of staggering insensitivity: they struck a commemorative medal with a depiction of the sinking… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“I didn't talk all the way home, trying not to cry. A missed lesson! But why did it bother me so much?… — Susan Shaw Copy Share Image
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I decided I would not go to court to have my mother declared incompetent, I would not fight. I put the car… — Kaylie Jones Copy Share Image
“Please remember that the lightning has never apologized for breaking skies open; the ocean has never said sorry for sinking ships. You,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“And it is the same, he perceived, in all seemingly heroic or tragic situations. On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To some Christians today, this world is not a sinking ship or a world reserved for fire. It is an international capitol… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“You are not going to lose me," said Claybriar. "I don't want to put you through that." "Is that a promise?" I… — Mishell Baker Copy Share Image
“We all have the same holes in our hearts Everything falls apart at the exact same time It all comes together perfectly… — Listener Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we ought to feel with more imagination. As today the sky 70 degrees above zero with lines falling The way September… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“The nautical expression that “Rats leave a sinking ship” is an observed truth. Not only will they attempt to save themselves but… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage on a sinking ship. There… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I suppose there hasn’t been a single month since the war, in any trade you care to name, in which there weren’t… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“oh, why am I a girl? Why am I not a stupid—? Look at you; you’re stupider than I am, not much,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
