Sink Quotes
647 Sink quotes by 523 unique authors
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The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man;…
— Thomas Mann
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What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are…
— Isaac Marion
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You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of…
— Neil Gaiman
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Should I ever again sink into illness, I'm sure I'll remember Eldric. I'll remember he cared for me. I'll remember that someone had at least…
— Franny Billingsley
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Since I didn't have a spork handy, I leaned over the sink and scooped up a palmful of cold water and pressed it against my…
— Devon Monk
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He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move…
— James Jones
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Stripping the protection wards off the ship was bad enough—it's a strong, strong enchantment, demon-based—but when you fell, I had to put a fast spell…
— Cassandra Clare
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A bean bag is a perfect place to sulk. You can sink way down deep, and sulk for hours... You only have to stick your…
— Charles M. Schulz
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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play…
— Lord Byron
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I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that…
— Lauren Oliver
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I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a…
— Haruki Murakami
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We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses,…
— George R. R. Martin
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History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved…
— Terry Pratchett
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He tasted deeper, holding himself over me, and suddenly he was everywhere; his knee trapping my leg, his lips grazing warm, rough, sensuous. He splayed…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Anyway, my office is small - one room, but on the corner, with a couple of windows. The sign on the door reads, simply, HARRY…
— Jim Butcher
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I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.
— Wes Moore
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But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Loose lips sink ships.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Julius Tallow was a fool. He appeared complacent, but like a weak swimmer out of his depth, his legs were kicking frantically under the surface,…
— Jonathan Stroud
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You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs,…
— Kiran Desai
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It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.
— Holly Black
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Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?
— Sarah Dessen
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Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank,…
— John Green
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Great minds sink alike, right?
— Jay McInerney
Who Wrote These Sink Quotes
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