Sinks Quotes
140 quotes by 128 authors
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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of…
— C.S. Lewis
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You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that…
— John Steinbeck
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And…
— Aldous Huxley
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Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I…
— C.S. Lewis
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The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.
— Henry Miller
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Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
— Pierre Corneille
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As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be…
— Jane Roberts
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Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness…
— Louise Erdrich
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If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire…
— Walter Savage Landor
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I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from…
— Bill Watterson
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All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.
— Anne Sexton
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If you give me wings I will soar for you Even if this whole land Sinks down to the water If you give me a…
— Tite Kubo
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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.
— Victor Hugo
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The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.
— Tim O'Brien
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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
— William Ellery Channing
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You better get over here with my car,†Grandad says. “Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it.†“Sorry,†I say contritely.…
— Holly Black
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Angela had done a marvelous job, I tell you. The puke was everywhere except the toilet. The walls, the floor, the sinks - even on…
— Nicholas Sparks
Who Wrote These Sinks Quotes
128 authors contributed a total of 140 Sinks Quotes, led by these top contributors: