#quicksand

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. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#humor #humour #knocked-out #portals #pueblo

Let your past be your spring-board, not your quicksand. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #past #quicksand #spring-board

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

— Rose Wilder Lane

#best #damn #dealing #escapes #life

The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile. ↗

— James Chanos

#banking system #built #china #chinese #clear

Vanity is the quicksand of reason. ↗

— George Sand

#reason #vanity

If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out. ↗

— Richard Shelby

#endgame #more #out #quicksand #step

There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#case #dealing #deficits #demands #euro

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. ↗

— John Updike

#blank #blank paper #characters #chilled #day

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. ↗

— Steven Wright

#child #eventually #had #i #kid

I worship the quicksand he walks in. ↗

— Art Buchwald

#quicksand #walks #worship