“ After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor. ”
- Bill Kelly- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Lord Beaverbrook- Copy
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“ The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. ”
- John C. Calhoun- Copy
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“ Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet. ”
- Carl Lewis- Copy
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“ It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude. ”
- Hannah Webster Foster- Copy
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“ In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. ”
- Edwin Abbott Abbott- Copy
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“ There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong… And maybe it is good for us to feel that way. It may make us more sensitive to what we do wrong and move us to repent and grow… ”
- Harold S. Kushner- Copy
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“ Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects … which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow. ”
- Rose Macaulay- Copy
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“ We sit at breakfast, we sit on the train on the way to work, we sit at work, we sit at lunch, we sit all afternoon a hodgepodge of sagging livers, sinking gallbladders, drooping stomachs, compressed intestines and squashed pelvic organs. ”
- John Button Jr.- Copy
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“ I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it. ”
- Nick Rhodes- Copy
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