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  • My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

    Party   Soul   Dinner  
    Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.101, Baen Books
  • Touching his hair, she leaned hesitantly forward, and he folded his arms around her, sinking into sensation again as they kissed--the slight weight of her on his lap, the smell of her. He glided his hands up the warm dip of her spine, felt her shiver and press closer. He could never get enough of this. Never.

    Hair   Hands   Smell  
  • Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends. . . . When Arjuna thus saw his kinsmen face to face in both lines of battle, he was overcome by grief and despair and thus he spoke with a sinking heart.

    Brother   Uncles   Father  
  • 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.

    Heart   Successful   Loss  
  • Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

    'The Old Curiosity Shop' (1841) ch. 7 (Dick Swiveller)
  • I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul.

    Depression   Jesus   Pain  
    "Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series".
  • Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.

    Feminist   Age   Identity  
  • And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

    Stars   Poetry   Desire  
    "Ulysses" l. 30 (1842)
  • Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

    Fall   Nihilism   Valleys  
    Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
  • 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 (1890). “The Calvary Pulpit: Christ and Him Crucified”
  • In the recent Virginia election, the black vote diminished. Now why was that? I think a lot of black folks are wondering what this guy is really going to do, not only for them but for the country. If the country is injured, they will be injured. That may be sinking in.

    Source: annaz.blogspot.com
  • 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.

    Mind   Desert   Might  
  • I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual conditions of particular problems have not been studied, such knowledge is little better than a derrick for sinking oil-wells erected where there are no oil-bearing strata.

    Oil   Imagination   Done  
  • Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

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

    "Q+A: Tim and Eric's Really Big Movie". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. March 2, 2012.
  • I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

    Book   Firsts   Process  
    "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. 2010.
  • Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships

    Song: Passion, Album: Passion, 2005
  • A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • Forbes did a story on , when I seen it in Forbes I was just like, "This looks good!" and it felt good so I just went ahead and posted it. As soon as I posted it, people started calling and congratulating me and then it really started sinking in that it was a real accomplishment.

    Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
  • 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.

    Thinking   Sinking   Ifs  
    "Mao Zedong" by Jonathan D. Spence, content.time.com. April 13, 1998.
  • We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

  • Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.

  • I would like to live to see the time when the men and woman of God - holy, separated and spiritually enlightened - walk out of the evangelical church and form a group of their own; when they get off the sinking ship and let her go down in the brackish and worldliness and form a new ark to ride out the storm.

    Men   Storm   Church  
  • No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.

    Levels   Matter   Facts  
    "Steps to an Ecology of Mind". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1972.
  • But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)

  • For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.

    Color   Space   Light  
  • Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!

  • Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her. I learned long ago that if you design how a ship'll sink, you can keep her afloat. I proposed all the watertight compartments and the double hull to slow these ships from sinking. In that way, you get everyone off. There's time for help to arrive, and the ship's less likely to break apart and kill someone while she's going down.

    Long Ago   Design   Hull  
  • If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

    Angel   Men   Devil  
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.487
  • None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon after climbing a snowy peak; and the fair play and tremendous impartiality of Nature, so tellingly displayed, will surely affect the after pleadings of the lawyer. Fresh air at least will get into everybody, and the cares of mere business will be quenched like the fires of a sinking ship.

    John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.217, e-artnow
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