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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. -- John C. Calhoun
War did not just level, it plowed the field, raising the muck and sinking the stubble. -- Neal Stephenson
I do not want my voice to go out into the air while my heart is sinking. -- E. M. Forster
To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, your end of the boat is sinking. -- Hugh Downs
...you are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed... -- John Geddes
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
Never be too angry beyond repairs. Anger is nothing good to be part of your tributes. Are you angry with someone? The sun is sinking, just drop it now. -- Israelmore Ayivor
So there existed fathers who dealt in the present, who didn't drag ancient history around like a ball and chain. So there were men who were not neck-deep and sinking in the quagmire of the past. -- Zadie Smith
Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart. -- Geneen Roth
It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was. -- Lorrie Moore
This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there. -- Daniel Handler
I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,if there were not a friend?The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He had outlived the luxurious agonies of youthful blood, and in this very freedom from illusion he recognised the loss of something. From now on, every hour of light-heartedness would be, not a prerogative but an achievement - one more axe or case-bottle or fowling-piece, rescued, Crusoe-fashion, from a sinking ship. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Oh,you talking to me now?" I ask."What?" he aks innocently, his cocoa eyes ide"You noticed my silencio treatment in Spanish class?" He takes his shot,sinking it."Yeah,I noticed when I had to do Actividad twenty-to by myself,as both waiter and customer," I say, catching the ball and passing it back to him. -- Alecia Whitaker
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. -- George Orwell
Yes, there is no denying it, any longer, it is not you who are dead, but all the others. So you get up and go to your mother, who thinks she is alive. That's my impression. But now I shall have to get myself out of this ditch. How joyfully I would vanish here, sinking deeper and deeper under the rains. -- Samuel Beckett
If time and fear aren't enough to dissuade people from their revenge, then there's always authority, softly shaking its head and saying, 'We understand, but you're the better man for letting it go. For rising above it. For not sinking to their level. And besides,' says authority, 'if you try anything stupid, we'll lock you up in a little room.' -- Jonathan Nolan
Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater. -- Amy Hempel
The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. -- Thomas Troward
It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude. -- Hannah Webster Foster
O Christian! do not falter, The harvest field is white, And many souls are sinking Into eternal night. -- William Evander Penn
To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking. -- Hugh Downs
Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles! -- Sarah Harmer
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
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
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, Lord Beaverbrook
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, Lord Beaverbrook

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