Sinks Quotes

140 quotes by 128 authors

God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility. — John Keble
When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks… — Charles Churchill
The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That… — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak. — Joanna Baillie
A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within… — George W. Norris
LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west! — Emily Dickinson
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We say to ourselves we won't live forever, but I don't think that thought ever really sinks in until the day comes. — Youth Lagoon
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. — Oliver Goldsmith
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger. — Bill Cosby
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. — Quentin Crisp
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. — Walter Savage Landor
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. — Pablo Picasso
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. — Albert Pike
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. — Robert Smithson
I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me… — David Walliams
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. — Jack Welch
If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one… — Frans de Waal

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