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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
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
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
— Woody Allen
A day may sink or save a realm.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
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
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
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
When we remember Deirdre and her tale,
And that her lips are dust. — James Kenneth Stephen
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
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
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
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
-from "Hear the Wind Sing — Haruki Murakami
Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.
— Jimmy Buffett
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
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
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
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
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 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