Sink Quotes

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. (Grover Cleveland)
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. View quote
Alan Watts
The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. View quote
Emil Cioran
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. View quote
Joseph Addison
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. View quote
Woody Allen
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. View quote
Václav Havel
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. View quote
John Bunyan
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair And they heard the words it said, 'Pan is dead great Pan is dead Pan, Pan is dead' View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. View quote
George Orwell
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. (James A. Garfield)
Locke sank into a swoon The Garden died God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. View quote
William Butler Yeats
As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. View quote
William Wordsworth
I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life. View quote
Studs Terkel
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy, You've had about seven hours' sleep since Friday, No wonder you feel that lost sensation You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. View quote
Ogden Nash
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath. View quote
Franz Kafka
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! View quote
William Collins
Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss. View quote
Helen Fielding
We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone. View quote
Yehuda Berg
Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches. (Dennis Eckersley)
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. View quote
Daniel Webster
Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security. View quote
Alexander Haig
Apparently it's my fault that the Titanic sank. View quote
Ian Holloway
Far from New England's blustering shore, New England's worm her hulk shall bore, And sink her in the Indian seas, Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas. View quote
Henry David Thoreau