#sinking

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#life #love #sarah-dessen #sinking-ship #life

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#down #inferiority #into #life #nothing

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#everyone #get #last #leaving #man

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters. ↗

— Mike Weir

#golf #golf course #green #hours #i

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#book #gonna #i #i think #myself

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. ↗

— James Joyce

#her #mind #polished #quagmire #sinking

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

#desert #float #his #make #make up

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago. ↗

— Eric Carle

#book #certain #distance #done #how

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. ↗

— Matthew Hale

#own #praise #reputation #sign #sinking

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#flame #friendship #pass #rosy #sinking