Quotes about Sinking

They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.

But when he saw the strength of the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”

that habituation is a slow, imperceptible sinking, whose point of no return is not clearly marked.

People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.

The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.

Thy conscience may be drawing ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I can't tell; but as thou art still an impenitent man [...] I greatly fear lest thy conscience be but a leaky one; and will in the end sink thee foundering down to the fiery pit.

We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat —and the boat is perpetually sinking.

My soul is like the dead sea, over which no bird can fly; when it gets halfway, it sinks down spent to its death and destruction.

If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures. Under Adams as under Jefferson , the government shall sink. The party in the hands of whose chief it shall sink will sink with it—and the advantage will be all on the side of his adversaries.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

I has such a sinking in my inside I has to get up and eat biscuits.