Quicksand Quotes

52 quotes by 50 authors

At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took.... — Heather McHugh
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted… — Woodrow Wilson
The plague of pornography is swirling about us as never before. Pornography brings a vicious wake of immorality, broken homes, and broken lives. Pornography will… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,… — Henry David Thoreau
In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep… — Ann Weems
Vanity is the quicksand of reason. — George Sand
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. — Eugene Delacroix
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has… — Richard P. Feynman
It's always strange to read the things you've hoped for in the past because by now those hopes may be spoken for or gone, transformed… — Andrew McMahon
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. — Rose Wilder Lane
Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I… — Brandon Boyd
Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand. — Mos Def
You know something that would really make me applaud? A guy gets stuck in quicksand, then sinks, then suddenly comes shooting out, riding on water… — Jack Handey
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. — Hannah More
Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as… — Sylvia Plath
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be… — Karl Kraus
The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is… — James Chanos
Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading or… — John Graves
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. — Aaron Hill

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