Sunk Quotes

131 Sunk quotes by 115 unique authors

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer… — Edith Wharton
That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has… — Alexander Hamilton
Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism… — Kenny Smith
The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of… — Richard Hough
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust! — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty… — Samuel Johnson
I know of a world that is sunk in shame, Where hearts oft faint and tire; But I know of a Name, a precious Name,… — J. Chapman
Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the… — Frederick Lenz
[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into… — John Ruskin
I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know. — Sarah McLachlan
Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night. — Homer
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness. — Daniel Goleman
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk. — John Milton
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. — Baron de Montesquieu
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. — George Orwell
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility… — Walker Percy
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk… — Wole Soyinka
But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our… — Robert Ardrey
Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits… — Toni Morrison
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of… — Haven Kimmel
About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone. — Virginia Woolf

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