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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

The higher the stress, the more liquid the quicksand becomes, so movement by a trapped body causes it to sink in deeply.

Daniel Bonn

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

Richard Feynman

Retirement can be a bit of a wonderland. But there are some patches of quicksand and some mines in the field.

Ken Dychtwald

It's been consumed by politics, controlled by politics and seems only to get more and more just sunk into the quicksand of politics.

Paul Goldberger

The last two games were played on [a surface] like quicksand, so they are no indication of what he can do. Mud is the adversary.

Larry Ciotti

If you move into the quicksand, this loose packing will collapse. We then have densely packed sand at the bottom, and water floating on top of it. It's the difficulty of getting water into this very densely packed sand that makes it difficult for you to pull your foot out.

Daniel Bonn

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

Hannah More

It's very mixed. When you get into an environment like this, the extremes get magnified -- the good do better and the struggling do worse. It's like quicksand.

Richard Baum

The grain does move on you. It is like quicksand.

Ken Cox

You have to introduce water into the sand. And the easiest way to do that is to make it trickle along your leg into the quicksand, by making a circular motion with your leg.

Daniel Bonn