(171 quotes found)
“And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.”
David Herbert Lawrence
“I wish that he would sink as deep in the ground as a hare can run in ten years”
Proverb
“As high as we have mounted in delight,In our dejection do we sink as low.”
William Wordsworth
“There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches”
Samuel Johnson
“It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship, ... But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.”
Robbie Fowler
“He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence”
“Either you sink or you swim”
“Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar”
Lord Byron
“Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.”
David Hare
“In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.”
Charles Francis Adams
