Sinking Quotes - Page 10

• Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Running, Air, Class

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• A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Hope, Heart

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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

  Hugh Downs

  Teamwork, Fate, Boat

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• All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Jesus, Rocks

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• By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

  C. Everett Koop

  War, Years, People

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• We do not want another committee, we have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all the people and to lift us up out of the economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man, and whether he be God or devil, we will receive him.

  David Spangler

  Men, People, Devil

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• 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.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Storm, Church

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• O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

  Phoebe Cary

  Children, Heart, Men

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• Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.

  Violette Leduc

  Jam, Raspberries, Ecstasy

  Violette Leduc (1966). “The Woman with the Little Fox: Three Novellas”

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• When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.

  Barney Frank

  Grateful, Funny Graduation, Swim

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• America is sinking under the crushing weight of the ever-expanding regulatory state. This burden threatens to disrupt our recovery, hamper long-term growth, undermine our global competitiveness, and suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit so vital to America's success.

  Tom J. Donohue

  Crush, Recovery, America

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• The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.

  Catharine Beecher

  Honesty, Years, People

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.285, Applewood Books

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• On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.

  William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

  Children, Sleep, Long

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• God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire

  William S. Burroughs

  Karma, Queens, Stupid

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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fall, Nihilism, Valleys

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Sea, Heaven

  1802 'It is a beauteous evening calm and free', l.1-8 (published 1807).

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

  Sarah Harmer

  Thinking, Light, Puddles

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• 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

  Life, Running, Time

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• And they say
  She's in the class A Team
  Stuck in her daydream
  Been that way since eighteen, but lately,
  Her face seems
  Slowly sinking, wasting
  Crumbling like pastries
  And they scream
  The worst things in life come free to us
  Cos we're just under the upperhand
  Go mad for a couple grams
  And she don't want to go outside tonight
  And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland
  Or sells love to another man
  It's too cold outside
  For angels to fly
  Angels to fly

  Ed Sheeran

  Couple, Team, Angel

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• The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

  Kinky Friedman

  Art, Writing, Fiction

  "Cowboy Logic: The Wit and Wisdom of Kinky Friedman". Book by Kinky Friedman, 2006.

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• The more thinking minds, the less sinking world!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Mind, World

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• The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.

  Upton Sinclair

  Beautiful, Art, Men

  Cosmopolitan, October, 1906.

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• Your side of the boat is sinking!

  Hank Smith

  Your Side, Sides, Boat

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• God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, God, Christian

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publications,Inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 83”, p.102, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Ocean

  Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan (2001). “Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan”, University Press of Amer

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