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Last updated on December 5, 2024.
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow.
If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.
The financial industry may not be synonymous with economics, but it does control a large enough sector of the global economy to sink us all, as was unnervingly demonstrated in 2008.
The ground swell is what’s going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are clichés also, of course, and I’m sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.
Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.
As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.
Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.
Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes:
The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze,
Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.
Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it.
Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.
Life is for living and there is only one way to go - unless you are prepared to sink and go down with the ship, which I don't choose to do.
Old people are considered worthless fuddy-duddies and often overlooked, which makes them sink into loneliness. I noticed it as soon as I started to age.
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.
It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.
I know I don't look edgy, but I have found that in my personality, I just have this natural energy that I enjoy edgier characters, and I really want a chance to sink my teeth into something like that.
I think the dream role is getting the opportunity to really sink my teeth into something and transform in the role.
When you consider the depths to which major college football coaches are willing to sink in order to protect their programs, Tyrann Mathieu's dismissal from LSU is staggering.
The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'
Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.
A career is about learning to adapt yourself to the new environment and learning to sink or swim.
All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in 'Batman: The Animated Series.'
To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.
The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.
If I just track Shang-Chi's journey in the context of table tennis in my life, it actually fits perfectly, and that's why I was able to sink into the character so, so seamlessly.
It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.
Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
The time comes when our hearts sink utterly;
When we remember Deirdre and her tale,
And that her lips are dust.
Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh.
We may faint and we may sink
Feel the pain and near the brink
But the dark begins to shrink
When you find the one who knows
Usually when we finish a game and we're at the end, we're sick of it. We want to put it in the box and be done with it. But with 'Borderlands,' it's actually become a productivity sink at Gearbox, because we're just having fun.
Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.
You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.
When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.
They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.
If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.
There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!
In the morning I'm like a snake in the spring: I need to lie out on a warm rock and let the sun sink into me before I can start wiggling around and get on with the day.
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.
Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.
Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for a global marketplace.
I'm not a competitive person, so I don't feel any pressure to win. I won't sink into a depression if we don't win.
...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.
[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.
It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting
Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.
