“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
O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, we had a quicksand box in the backyard. I was an only child...eventually. — Anonymous 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 case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Sadness was like quicksand, catching you unaware and pulling you in the more you fought it.” — Martin Kee 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
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
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
I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some… — Bear Grylls 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
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
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
...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
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
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little… — Trent Reznor 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“I was a very nervous kid, I was anxious all the time when I was younger, but what's nice is that some… — John Mulvaney Copy Share Image
“The choices a human being has to make also involve deciding where one stands in an unjust society: we are all political… — 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
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
“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
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