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Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking. — Lee Iacocca

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

Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking. — Susanna Centlivre

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

Sometimes you plug the hole any way you can, and worry about fixing the boat later. If the choices are sinking today or tomorrow, I'll take tomorrow. — Karen Marie Moning

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

I can imagine my fangs sinking into her soft flesh, the gasps of pain and pleasure from my bite, the way she'd either fight or fall into my arms. — Inger Iversen

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships. — Gilda Radner

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt. — Amy Alcott

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

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

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 feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning. — Dolly Parton

I think of my second lost compass sinking to the bottom of the river, like the stone it was before Ky changed it. — Ally Condie

The more thinking minds, the less sinking world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

This is the sinking woman
whose soul touched the ocean and
caused it to storm kisses. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings. — Nancy Dunnan

Develop distinct habits of wreaking havoc on any stinking thinking addicted to launching mental missiles aimed at sinking your unique magic. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. — James Joyce

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

You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking. — Simon Cowell

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship. — Sarah Palin

This is going to be a lot for the Congress to swallow, even on the deck of a sinking ship. — Kenneth Eade

When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking. — Tim Heidecker

In my deepest self I know this, and the knowledge has kept me from sinking. — Lena Dunham

Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship. — Lynn Dickey

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard. — Sarah Dessen

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

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate. — George C. Marshall

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

Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit. — Felix Riesenberg

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. — Matthew Hale

When the spiritual light is concentrated in the brain, everything else must be sinking in the dark. — Carl Linnaeus

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. — John C. Calhoun

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

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. — Mao Zedong

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

When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself. — Lucy Christopher

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand — Joni Mitchell

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

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again. — Roger Waters

There was nearly an inch of snow accumulated and Washington was rapidly sinking into hysteria. — Robert B. Parker

Victor was sinking, straight through his skin and the bed and the floor, right down into black. — V.E Schwab

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

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

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

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

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

[ ... ] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your side of the boat is sinking! — Hank Smith

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

If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking. — John Mark McMillan

Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory — John Pugsley

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. — Charles Caleb Colton

My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within. — Shannon Perry

The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling. — Paul McCartney

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win. — Joni Mitchell

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

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell! — Charles Spurgeon

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. — Muhammad Ali

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

When men's spirits are sinking every thing helps to sink them. — Matthew Henry

Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of many months, and anxiously saying to herself, "Oh! when shall I leave you again? — Jane Austen

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing. — Daniel Clowes

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

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

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

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

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