Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. — Hannah More 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
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
“Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand.” — Bryant McGill 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
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
“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
“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
Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between,… — Brandon Boyd 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
“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 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
You should climb around inside my brain, Dan. It's like this dark room surrounded by quicksand." "I know what you mean," her… — Peter Lerangis 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
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
“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
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 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
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
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
We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find… — Regina Brett 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
“That’s what life is all about. The obvious. The minute we start layering it with shades of grey, we start getting caught… — Cristiane Serruya 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
