The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations. — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
That horrible sinking moment when you realize that everything you do will never be fucking good enough — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude. — Hannah Webster Foster Copy Share Image
Abandon ship. Fend for yourself. Youve got that sinking feeling and nothing else. — The Swellers Copy Share Image
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In all the heroic tales, dying soldiers saw their lives pass before their eyes. No, Martin realized. The memories were just running… — J.P. Moore Copy Share Image
In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks… — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“I finally have permission to breathe, but I can’t. I inhale like sucking in salt water. I’m drowning in the unexpected. I’m… — Carrie Lofty Copy Share Image
“The uncertainty of my own experience is crushing. I am drowning in an infinite sea. Sinking slowly, the weight of the lightless… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off… — Barbara Demick Copy Share Image
The horse grunted softly. He had huge teeth, Clary noticed uneasily; each one the size of a Pez dispenser. She imagined those… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“And trust me when I tell you, Fallon, this trunk holds the key to both our fortunes.” He sat down heavily on… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“We all have the same holes in our hearts Everything falls apart at the exact same time It all comes together perfectly… — Listener Copy Share Image
Im sinking inside And the maps and lines are broken down tonight. I swallow my pride But were drowning in the ocean… — Kemis Khan Copy Share Image
“We had proceeded but a few days, coasting the crushing capes of rock that every where seemed to run out in a… — Harriet Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
“Without looking up to God, sinking leads to drowning. But when my eyes are locked on his, sinking tells a different story.… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
A lot of guys in the prison think they're bad. Some of them are, but when it comes to being bad in… — Tex Watson Copy Share Image