When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. — Steven Wright 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
“Facing up to cancer is a battle conducted on many fronts. The important thing is not to waste too much strength fighting… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight… — Shekhar Kapur 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
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
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes… — Anonymous 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
It's interesting that the worse things get, the more we believe the next technological fix is going to get us out of… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Our virtues are the quicksands, which show themselves at calm and low water; but let the waves arise and the winds buffet… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley.… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“The Trenches of Comprehension by Stewart Stafford Drowning at quicksand's smothering pace, A lonely disappearance that leaves no trace. As I struggle… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“I was raised in the desert and always appreciated the way its landscape gives you a chance to see what's coming. In… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
