Sinks Quotes
140 quotes by 128 authors
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.…
— Samuel Johnson
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Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well.…
— Plato
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Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine...
— Al Gore
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In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.
— Georg Trakl
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls…
— Nina Simone
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Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
— Homer
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Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain…
— J. D. Greear
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You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story
— Dan Harmon
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Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism…
— Josemaria Escriva
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If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a…
— Timothy Keller
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When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my…
— Hideo Kojima
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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into…
— Eric Hoffer
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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in…
— John Milton
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There is an Eye that never sleeps, Beneath the wind of night. There is an ear that never shuts, When sinks the beams of light.…
— George Matheson
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One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men…
— William Butler Yeats
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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
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Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience…
— Hayao Miyazaki
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Such sorrow— The cry of true compassion Sinks into my hard ego.
— Taitetsu Unno
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Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
— Simone de Beauvoir
Who Wrote These Sinks Quotes
128 authors contributed a total of 140 Sinks Quotes, led by these top contributors: