“It is so incredibly easy to take risks with the lives of other people.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.” — Alane Adams Copy Share Image
At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took… — Heather McHugh 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
“Dusty, if you ever see any "Quicksand"---you can know that there is OIL somewhere very close to it.” — John Everett Bass (Maternal Grandfather of Marsha Carol Watson Gandy Copy Share Image
“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
“In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous.” — Victor Hugo 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 godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of… — Ann Weems Copy Share Image
“Let us not remain anchored in the quicksand of a waning past, and lose the war on obliviousness, but let us listen… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ...… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
“At a certain point, we have to stop ‘play time,’ start ‘construction time’ and get things going, instead of getting mired down… — Erik Pevernagie 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
...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
I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library—subway maps, bus maps, and regular… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
“Islanzadi sighed, and suddenly appeared tired. “Ormomis may have been your proper teacher, but you have proved yourself to be Brom’s heir,… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but… — John Keats Copy Share Image
You should climb around inside my brain, Dan. It's like this dark room surrounded by quicksand." "I know what you mean," her… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
“I admit that I have been surprised during recent times. People I thought might well flee into the shadows have proved to… — Henning Mankell 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
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
“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
I think I'm still just as conflicted about the war as I always was. On the one hand, I was a soldier… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
“Just as everything in my life has changed, every new morning brings with it a fresh challenge. I have to think about… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Endless numbers of people surround you as you travel through life. Some you notice briefly, then forget. With others you make eye… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“In my life I have met people who have committed horrendous and barbaric acts. I have met child soldiers who have murdered… — Henning Mankell 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
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace. — Margaret Atwood 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