“ Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over. ”
- P.K. Shaw- Copy
- 203
“ Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains. ”
- Hannah More- Copy
- 434
“ Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it… it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square. ”
- George Berkeley- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you... at any time. ”
- Harold Pinter- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. ”
- Aaron Hill- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. ”
- George Steiner- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible to apply. ”
- Warren E. Burger- Copy
- 2.2K
“ It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not? ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
- 2.8K
“ It's been consumed by politics, controlled by politics and seems only to get more and more just sunk into the quicksand of politics. ”
- Paul Goldberger- Copy
- 1.7K
“ When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child… eventually. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
- 2.6K
“ When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. ”
- Stephen Wright- Copy
- 4K
“ It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. ”
- Anthony Trollope- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Iraq has become a quagmire. It may well go down as the worst blunder in the entire history of American foreign policy. ”
- Edward Kennedy- Copy
- 2K
“ Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. ”
- John Updike- Copy
- 1K
“ It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Luxury: more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. ”
- Hannah More- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 2.8K
“ There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp. ”
- Mark Rutherford- Copy
- 2K
“ Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 4K
“ These impulsive half-breeds have got spoiled by this emeute and must be kept down by a strong hand until they are swamped by the influx of settlers. ”
- John A. Macdonald- Copy
- 2K
“ This is something that I cannot get over — that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still worse, to any applicant from Arkansas. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 4K
“ Deathlessness should be arrived at in a… haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
- 3.4K
“ At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 1.8K
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