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A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. — Marie Stopes

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun. — Isaac Asimov

Loose lips sink ships. — Erwin Rommel

When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love;
The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
Sink in the soft captivity together. — Joseph Addison

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike! — John Paul Jones

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War) — Charles De Gaulle

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection. — Thomas Chalmers

Unless you count the way the words sink into Neil, the way his life feels a little more solid than it did five minutes before. — David Levithan

I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone — Conor Oberst

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art. — Baltasar Gracian

It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall. — Holly Black

Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink. — Alane Adams

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. — Woody Allen

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. — Lady Gaga

A day may sink or save a realm. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace. — Margaret Atwood

Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness. — E. M. Forster

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. — Stanley Baldwin

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial. — Neal A. Maxwell

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down. — Don Marquis

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine — Emmuska Orczy

Tossed By Waves,
She Does Not Sink. — Lauren Kate

By coming down elbow first, I'd made a large enough crack in the ice to sink through.
The water was so cold that it stopped time. — Rachel Sharp

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. — George W. Bush

I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything. — Ted Gup

Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas. — Henry David Thoreau

The higher I get the lower I sink. — Oliver Sykes

Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. — John Mason Neale

and washing it off in the sink. "Finish up your lunch." "We're starting now?" "Good a — Ann Patchett

This is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh. — Geraldine Brooks

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly;
When we remember Deirdre and her tale,
And that her lips are dust. — James Kenneth Stephen

In Mexico, dishes pile up in the sink just as fast as in the States, goddamn it. — Jason R. Koivu

Drowning people often believe that if they grab hold of someone else they can be saved, but that just makes you both sink faster. — Clementine Von Radics

In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses. — Paul Graham

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222) — Gabrielle Zevin

I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances. — Wes Moore

I've skimmed through it a dozen times, the book glued to my side the past few days, like maybe the information will sink in through osmosis. — J.M. Darhower

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink. — Tim Powers

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that. — Clint Eastwood

Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness. — Mary Wollstonecraft

The sun will sink lower soon enough, turning the fields into open black space, ushering another day out, another day in
one after the next. — Allison Winn Scotch

Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever. — Virginia Woolf

Writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness."
-from "Hear the Wind Sing — Haruki Murakami

A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew. — Wes Fesler

I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility. — Alex Sink

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat. — Jimmy Buffett

Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard. — Genie Frisbee

The news took a moment to sink in, probably because there was no bottom for it to alight upon. — Jean-Christophe Valtat

Hope and trust will more reliably keep a man afloat, while fear is more like to sink him. — Dean Koontz

What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that. — David Hackworth

Celebrate your achievements, but never let them sink you into the pool of complacency. — Israelmore Ayivor

Live or die, sink or swim. — George Peele

She was like quicksand-the more I struggled to get out, the faster I sank. So I'd decided to give up and embrace the sink down. — Kelley R. Martin

build a new ship out of old wood or you're destined to sink. — Andrea Smith

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. — Nick Flynn

I think the dream role is getting the opportunity to really sink my teeth into something and transform in the role. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet. — Russell B. Long

I sink you, that I will not be sunk by you. — Stacia Kane

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me. — Virginia Woolf

He'd known that, of course, but he'd not really let the thought sink in, too distracted by Carrie's perky breasts. — Audrey Alexander

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

Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink. — Ellen DeGeneres

How does knowing 'things could be worse' than what I already deem awful make me feel any better? You mean I could sink even lower? Oh joy! — Richelle E. Goodrich

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into. — Michael P. Anderson

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray. — Benjamin Disraeli

im eaisly influenced by others Do's and Don'ts. How can they bring me up so high, an sink me down like a stone? — Cassie Premo Steele

The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink. — Frank Lowy

My feet sink into the ground, and above me, the branches grow into one another, forming a kind of tunnel. — Veronica Roth

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece. — Leonard Cohen

Promise was like a precious stone, she told me: hypnotising, but after a while the weight of it could sink you. — Meg Haston

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse. — Dee Remy

If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched. — John Lancaster Spalding

armed with the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy as well as the entire Outlander series to sink into on the journey. It — Jenny Colgan

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul! — Philip James Bailey

Lay down your roots now,
let them wrap tight around mine,
sink deep in the soil. — Tyler Knott Gregson

whatever is happening outside, Beta, your must not let it sink into your flesh. Do not punish your body for what it cannot control. — Samina Ali

I'm stuck in anxiety quicksand: The harder I try to climb my way out, the lower I sink. — Glennon Doyle Melton

I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedimes- my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like 'Fargo — Courteney Cox

We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink. — Madeleine L'Engle

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery. — Holly Black

Tie rock to tail and throw kitty in
lake. Watch kitty sink, ha! — Julie Kagawa

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. — J.K. Rowling

Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean. — Matshona Dhliwayo

To name her is to sink her," he told me. "That which we name takes greater weight than the sea it displaces. Ask any shipwreck. — Neal Shusterman

They don't tell you how to be on TV - they put the camera on you, and they turn it on, and you sink or swim. — Michael Strahan

Imagine my not letting him sink, as I was his fag!' said Mr. Tartar. — Charles Dickens

Life is like stepping into a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. - SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI A — Pema Chodron

Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink. — John Connolly

I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper. — William Golding

Loose lips sink ships, Mr. Kiss and Tell. — Rob Thomas

Below me, inside me, there's a pit that's dark and comforting and quite completely insane. If I sink into it, I can be free of all torture. — Karen Marie Moning

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water. — Charles Olson

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there. — John Banville

Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life? — Robert Frost

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

More and more I am learning to let go of urgency and to let my soul sink deeply and refreshingly into contemplation of the joy of the Spirit. — Helen Greaves

We were like trees with nowhere to sink our roots, Joseph and I. Instead of finding the ground we wound them around each other. — Lauren Nicolle Taylor

I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations. — Darynda Jones