Sink Quotes

647 Sink quotes by 523 unique authors

The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive… — Franz Kafka
I am determined, even if they throw mud in my face, never to show any resentment, nor break with them, nor deviate from the esteem… — Vincent de Paul
These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all. — Dante Alighieri
If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger… — Miguel Syjuco
If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn… — Marianne Faithfull
Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. — Elisabeth Elliot
When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty, we already… — Alan Turing
Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants… — Walt Whitman
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress,… — Benjamin Disraeli
How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws. — Emile M. Cioran
If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul! — Philip James Bailey
But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across the ocean from… — Colin Powell
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without… — Confucius
What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink? — William Butler Yeats
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose… — Lord Chesterfield
The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when… — John Steinbeck
At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink)… — Alan Bennett
If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World… — Rory McIlroy
Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These… — Keith Olbermann
One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words. — Virginia Woolf
I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was… — Vance Havner
The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection. — Thomas Chalmers
Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this… — Dianne Feinstein

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