“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
“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
“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
“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
“It is so incredibly easy to take risks with the lives of other people.” — Henning Mankell 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
“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 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
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
“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
O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
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
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
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
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'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
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. — Eugene Delacroix 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
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
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
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
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
