Not Sinking Quotes

Would it be enough to rock on a stormless sea with each our separate memories tuned to the state of the sinking sun? — Kristen Henderson

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking. — Bob Dylan

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back. — Robyn Davidson

It's a sinking ship," he said. "You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard. — Michael Chabon

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It takes just one wave to capsize a boat, and one more to take it down. — Federico Chini

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact. — David Mamet

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking. — Anne Lamott

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry? — Sebastian Junger

Unless it is relevant and accurate, knowledge can be the sinking ship the fool insists is sea-worthy, because knowledge often masquerades as wisdom. — Anonymous

Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles! — Sarah Harmer

If my good mood were a raft named Gaby, it seemed like it was on the verge of sinking. — Mariana Zapata

The sack of kittens sinking in the icy creek increases the cold — Chris Hedges

Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand. — Robert Stuart MacArthur

I do not want my voice to go out into the air while my heart is sinking. — E. M. Forster

You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat. — Kelli Jae Baeli

She had wandered so far from the rules of propriety that she was making up new ones just to keep from sinking into the abyss. — Sabrina Jeffries

I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest. — Jean Arthur

In the sinking sand,
where we've come to rest,
have I had a hand in your loneliness? — Joanna Newsom

What shall I do with this ageing me? Neither floating nor sinking,
I drift, tossed by the waves of years. — Takuboku Ishikawa

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. — Max Aitken

It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude. — Hannah Webster Foster

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation. — Henry Allen Ironside

Sinking. Sinking, but instead of feeling panic or anything else, I realized that "Please guys, don't" were terrible last words. — John Green

If you're lost and alone
Or you're sinking like a stone
Carry on ...
May your past be the sound
Of your feet upon the ground
Carry on — Fun

The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. — Thomas Troward

And so it went, sand piling up to the heavens and homes sinking toward hell. — Hugh Howey

O Christian! do not falter,
The harvest field is white,
And many souls are sinking
Into eternal night. — William Evander Penn

Fox's hand was a life raft, the only thing stopping me from sinking further into empty blackness. — Lili Wilkinson

All I need is just a beautiful hand which pulls me up when I am sinking — Nelson Jack

You are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed ... — John Geddes

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad. — Bret Easton Ellis

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking. — Hugh Downs

People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer. — Philip Yancey

When your LinkedIn Profile doesn't sync with your Facebook persona, you are on a verge of sinking your brand — Bernard Kelvin Clive

War did not just level, it plowed the field, raising the muck and sinking the stubble. — Neal Stephenson

Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers. — Alexander Woollcott

For how long can one maintain total vigilance?

For how long can love last, in isolation, without sinking crushed beneath its own pressure? — Dorothy Dunnett

The small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison. — Wilkie Collins

Japanese had reported sinking her so many times that she had acquired an additional sobriquet, "the Galloping Ghost of the Oahu Coast. — William F. Halsey

Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to rise again — Munia Khan

She liked to think of drowning, of sinking down into cool green water, and feeling herself slowly pressed into nothingness ... — J.K. Rowling

Miss Allison realised with a slight sinking of the heart that she was to be made the recipient of confidences. — Georgette Heyer

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again. — Shan Sa

Lonely stillness - a single cicada's cry sinking into stone — Basho Matsuo

Please don't follow in my footsteps. I'm already knee-deep in them, and am sinking rapidly... — Tony James Slater

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead. — Arthur M. Jolly

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. — James Russell Lowell

[ ... ] a sigh fit for the pillow, the sinking firelight, and a bedroom window open to the stars and the whisper of bare trees. — Evelyn Waugh

A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking. — Bobby Darin

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater. — Amy Hempel

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise. — Anthony Liccione

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. — Charles Dickens

Your side of the boat is sinking! — Hank Smith

Life has played her like a cat weaving between her legs, pretending to be tame, friendly, before sinking its claws into soft, vulnerable flesh. — Wendy James

Safety, stability
it's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim. — Rainbow Rowell

I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones September 23, 1779. He said this when his ship was on fire and sinking. — Steven Atwood