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Vanity is the quicksand of reason. -- George Sand
I worship the quicksand he walks in. -- Art Buchwald
The Hall Of Fame Is Built On Quicksand -- Dean Cavanagh
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. -- Hannah More
When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. -- Steven Wright
I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever. -- Bear Grylls
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. -- John Updike
I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom. -- Kaley Cuoco
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. -- Eugene Delacroix
At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took.... -- Heather McHugh
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary. -- Guy de Maupassant
Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind. -- Brandon Boyd
You know something that would really make me applaud? A guy gets stuck in quicksand, then sinks, then suddenly comes shooting out, riding on water skis! How do they do that?! -- Jack Handey
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character. -- Karl Kraus
The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story the way I see it. I sometimes feel I am slogging through quicksand when I write. -- Linda Conrad
...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice. -- John Keats
The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to "uh-oh. -- Ridley Pearson
In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one. -- Ann Weems
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand. -- Trent Reznor
While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind. And if that moral doctrine is not absolute then the definer himself becomes undefined. That's what we are living with - an undefined definer giving us definitions for our course, and we are being trapped in the quicksand of the absence of objective truth. -- Ravi Zacharias
If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out. -- Richard Shelby
Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. -- Rose Wilder Lane
When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience. -- Shekhar Kapur
We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be. -- Regina Brett
The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile. -- James Chanos
In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people. -- Robert Osborne
There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that. -- Peer Steinbruck
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand. -- Trent Reznor
As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy. -- Martha Beck
Shame is quicksand on the path to soul. -- Tian Dayton
Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand. -- Mos Def
Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand. -- JoAnn Ross
Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand. -- Bryant McGill
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. -- Aaron Hill
Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of. -- Colin Wilson
The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore. -- I.E. Castellano
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time. -- Harold Pinter
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. -- Rose Wilder Lane
Surrounding yourself with a lot of desert is a bit like sitting in quicksand: Sooner or later the water will find you and suck you under." -- Karen White
Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down. -- Daniel Handler
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper -- John Updike
The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master and how hard people need to struggle to learn it. -- Zygmunt Bauman
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In times of change and danger, when there is a quicksand of fear under one's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. John Dos Passos -- George F. Will

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