Quotations
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. FreePaperz now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
sink
«In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.»
«Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.»
Author: James A. Garfield
(President)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
compelled, nine times, overboard, sink, Sink or Swim, tossed, uncomfortable
«I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money.»
«My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| About:
Ambition,
Books,
Meditation,
Mind,
Senses,
Writing
| Keywords:
compose, contemplating, hut, lotus, lotus position, meditation, retire, sink
«'Rock' [music]. . . is the expression of elemental passions, and at rock festivals it assumes a cultic character, a form of worship, in fact, in opposition to Christian worship. People are, so to speak, released from themselves by the experience of being part of a crowd and by the emotional shock of rhythm, noise, and special lighting effects. However, in the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.»
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
(Pope)
| Keywords:
assumes, as it were, defenses, defense force, ecstasy, elemental, festivals, form of worship, in opposition, lighting, participant, participants, released, rhythm, rock music, shock, sink, so to speak, special effects, the participants, torn
«O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Art,
Music
| Keywords:
blast, miraculous, organ, peal, pealed, pealing, rush, sink, trumpet, uncounted
«Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
at most, compose, familiarity, fits, frequent, indiscriminate, jokes, merry, play a joke on, respectable, romp, sink
«He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Manners,
Violence
| Keywords:
gulf, Gulf of, obscurity, precipice, precipices, predecessors, pushing, push away, sink, sink in, swept, Swept Away