Sinking Quotes

204 quotes by 187 authors

As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine… — Kirk Cameron
Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles! — Sarah Harmer
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive.… — Isaac Asimov
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you,… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers. — Alexander Woollcott
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known… — Soren Kierkegaard
Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which… — Matthieu Ricard
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst,… — Charles Spurgeon
A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards… — Ming-Dao Deng
The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then… — Thomas Troward
All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation. — Henry Allen Ironside
If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning. — Dolly Parton
What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship. — Lynn Dickey
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered… — Alfred Marshall
If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking. — John Mark McMillan
Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends. . . . When Arjuna thus… — Juan Mascaro
When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can… — Otsuichi
I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest. — Jean Arthur
A lot of guys in the prison think they're bad. Some of them are, but when it comes to being bad in every sense of… — Tex Watson

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