Sinking Quotes

204 quotes by 187 authors

When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the… — Barney Frank
America is sinking under the crushing weight of the ever-expanding regulatory state. This burden threatens to disrupt our recovery, hamper long-term growth, undermine our global… — Tom J. Donohue
That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in… — Joe Abercrombie
On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm… — William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell
The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on a sinking ship… — Upton Sinclair
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman
You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again. — Roger Waters
Iâ€™ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid. — Ben Lerner
Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the… — Tom Rachman
A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends.… — Barbara Demick
Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even… — Geneen Roth
The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit. — Felix Riesenberg
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering… — George Orwell
You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book… — Eric Carle
Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I… — Wilford Woodruff
God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And… — Michael Leunig
We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were… — Jack Adams
Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf… — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be… — Robbie Fowler
The literary scene is a kind of Medusaâ€™s raft, small and sinking, and oneâ€™s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step… — John Updike

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