“Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand.” — Bryant McGill 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
Loneliness is like quicksand, once you're in it, it's hard to get out of. — Anonymous 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
“Even a short-lived visit to the bottom level of society means that one is faced with one of the most important decisions… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Moinous reaches for Sucette's hand and squeezes it. Oh but I do love you, I do, I swear, in spite of them.… — Raymond Federman Copy Share Image
You know something that would really make me applaud? A guy gets stuck in quicksand, then sinks, then suddenly comes shooting out,… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand.… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Beauty is a dangerous word. Beauty becomes slightly indulgent for me. It's a snatched kind of moment for me because I'm entitled… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
Generally the impulse to find justice through punitive measures can be a kind of quicksand. What James Whitman, the scholar I cite… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and… — John Graves Copy Share Image
“Surrounding yourself with a lot of desert is a bit like sitting in quicksand: Sooner or later the water will find you… — Karen White Copy Share Image
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story… — Linda Conrad Copy Share Image
“I learnt the most important thing you have to know: how to look after yourself. To stand by your own decisions. I… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“To get out of that quicksand, she needed validation, and she sought it the most in the world than anything else. Every… — Akshay Vasu Copy Share Image
The Lord is near! You're not alone. You may feel alone. You may think you're alone. But there's never a moment in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
It's always strange to read the things you've hoped for in the past because by now those hopes may be spoken for… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
The plague of pornography is swirling about us as never before. Pornography brings a vicious wake of immorality, broken homes, and broken… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Am I your possession? Am I in demand? Oh, when you turn to me, I'm in the quicksand. — La Roux Copy Share Image
“Sadness was like quicksand, catching you unaware and pulling you in the more you fought it.” — Martin Kee 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
