Quicksand Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

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.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

I worship the quicksand he walks in.

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

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.