Sinking Quotes
Sinking Quote of the day
Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.
The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.
Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.
Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.
If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.
You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.
Don't you see all the people sinking down? Don't you care? Are you gonna let them drown?
I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.
Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!
It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.
By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.
To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.
Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in sinking the unfit.
You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.
I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.
It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.
I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.
Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.
When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.
Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.
It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.
We may be sinking in the North Atlantic in the most famous ship disaster of all time, but God can still use us to reach out and save others through our witness.
You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.
The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.
