Sunk Quotes
131 quotes by 115 authors
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As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you,…
— Danny Boyle
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In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons never had any…
— George S. Patton
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
— William James
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Nine! The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. Ten! If it is lost underwater, he finds it. If it's…
— Billy Sunday
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Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life…
— Eduard Suess
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Loving yourself is a willingness to be in the same space with your own creations. How contracted would you become if you try to withdraw…
— Thaddeus Golas
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I still don't think it's sunk in that I won the Heisman. I'll be able to reflect back on the season, appreciate those types of…
— Robert Griffin III
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Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for…
— Noam Chomsky
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Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow.…
— Anthony of Padua
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The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the…
— Aldous Huxley
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The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.
— Mercy Otis Warren
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The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries…
— Sappho
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The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by,…
— Paul Watson
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No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she…
— Victoria Woodhull
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The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.
— C.S. Lewis
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The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope…
— Maria Edgeworth
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