Best 15 quotes in «quicksand quotes» category

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your past.

Shame is quicksand on the path to soul.

Political sensitivity is as rare as footprints on quicksand.

Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!

Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

At a certain point, we have to stop ‘play time,’ start ‘construction time’ and get things going, instead of getting mired down in the quicksand of wishful thinking, clutching desperately to imaginary ‘dei ex machina.’ (" Swim or sink")

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous.

It took Pueblo a few seconds to take in his surroundings. The first thing he realised was that he felt bruised all over; the second was that his clothes were waterlogged, even more than before, from the quicksand; and the third, was that he had landed on his front and was lying on a large, uncomfortable stone. No, wait… In his disoriented state, he shifted his weight. The stone didn't move. He was lying on his own fucking erection.

Be careful… not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they’re actually quicksand.

But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted it.

Islanzadi sighed, and suddenly appeared tired. “Ormomis may have been your proper teacher, but you have proved yourself to be Brom’s heir, not Oromis’s. Brom is the only person who managed to entangle himself in as many predicaments as you. Like him, you seem compelled to find the deepest patch of quicksand and then dive into it.” Eragon hid a smile, pleased by the comparison.