“Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.” — Alane Adams Copy Share Image
“It is so incredibly easy to take risks with the lives of other people.” — Henning Mankell 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
“An easy life is like quicksand:Before you know it, you’re trapped and can’t move, can’t breathe, can’t get to where you really… — Jessica Hagy 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
I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and crushed hopes. Such a quagmire of… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Voluntary Quicksand I read the Chronicle this morning as if I were stepping into voluntary quicksand and watched the news go over… — Richard Brautigan 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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
If someone keeps bringing you down when you know you have tried your best to make them happy, let them GO because… — Chee Vai Tang 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
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
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
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
“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
“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 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
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
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re… — Aldous Huxley 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
