Quotes About Sinking

The sinking of the Lusitania wasn't the proximal cause for the U.S. entering WWI. It was almost two years between the sinking and the war declaration, and President Wilson's request for war never mentions the Lusitania.

Snow does not freeze the hands, but like ether distends the lungs until they burst. All the ships are sinking with fire in their bowels, and there are fires hissing in the cellars of every house.

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

But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)

Pride & honor & truth & virtue & kindliness, he enumerated silkily. You are right, Scarlett. They aren't important when a boat is sinking. But look around you at your friends. Either they are bringing their boats ashore safely with cargoes intact or they are content to go down with all flags flying.

the 1918 sinking of the Princess Sophia in Lynn Canal. 11. Federal Building – A few blocks south along Glacier Avenue, at the corner

Je weet toch wel wat er gebeurt als je gaten in de bodem van een schip maakt, hè? Dan heeft zo'n schip de neiging om te zinken. - Stig

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

I'm sinking quicker than you could ever imagine. I'm wishing. I'm falling blindly in the dark. I'm crying because I have known that you and I..we were doomed from the very start.

I thought you gave it all to me as a gift. I was mistaken. It was only a loan, and now you want it all returned to you to be handed over to another being who will rise in his turn out of the same eternity into which I am sinking back. Lord of Light, be it so! The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord!

He could barely open his eyes. 'Hello? You there, God? It's me Judy.' 'Kipling. Can you hear me?' 'I'd like to order room service, please. I'd like the spaghetti Bolognese.' He rolled off the raft into the pool, sinking. I pulled off my shoes and raincoat and dove after him, finding him drifting motionless along the bottom. Madly I kicked back to the surface. 'Kipling! Can you hear me? 'It's the final countdown,' He sang, his eyes slits. I was the lone nurse working in a madhouse.

He did not want headlines round the world proclaiming that a ship called 'Germany' had been sunk.

The British are a strange race,' he said. 'In peacetime, they are impossible to manage, but in a crisis they are magnificent. The only time a British sailor is truly happy is when his ship is sinking.

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

Traveling in these giant cedar canoes, the Haida would regularly paddle their home into, and out of, existence. With each collective paddle stroke they would have seen their islands sinking steadily into the sea while distant snow-covered peaks scrolled up before them like a new planet. Few people alive today have any notion of how it might feel to pull worlds up from beyond the horizon by faith and muscle alone.

He really didn't want his job. He didn't want to work again; all he wanted was to sink, sink, effortless, down into the mud.

She sinks. She sinks in holy sadness. Like an Ophelia in tears she sinks

Miss Allison realised with a slight sinking of the heart that she was to be made the recipient of confidences.

Do you love boats as much as I do?" "No," Osorio said. "Sailboats, fishing boats, rowboats?" "No." "Maybe it's a male characteristic. I think the appeal is the apparent irresponsibility of boats, the sense of floating anywhere, while the opposite is true. You have to work like a dog to keep from sinking.

I fret for Sylvia. She appears anchored to the idea of sinking, which is silly when she so clearly soars above almost everyone.

soil-colored liquid was a bog and he was sinking.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

He began to sink, gazing up at the fading light. Darkness swept over Flametail and the sunlight vanished forever.

We were a sinking ship headed for the bottom of the ocean.