Quotes with sinking

  • 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.

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  • Aldous Huxley 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.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • James Russell Lowell In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Amy Hempel Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
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    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Billy Campbell On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Carl Lewis 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.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bobby Orr The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • John C. Calhoun The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
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  • George Orwell We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Charles Dickens Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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