Peer Steinbruck

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.

German Politician

Trent Reznor

In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

American Musician

Robert Osborne

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

American Actor

Shekhar Kapur

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

Indian Actor

Robert Sapolsky

I think you get to a time in life where by definition stuff's turning to quicksand and wherever you can get some solid footing of the familiar suddenly becomes real comforting.

American Scientist

Regina Brett

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.

American Journalist

Steven Wright

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

American Comedian

Hannah More

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

English Writer

Art Buchwald

George Sand

French Novelist

Quicksand in nature acts like a trap, making escape difficult.

Physical Trap

Quicksand is not like ordinary sand; it's waterlogged and behaves differently.

Not Actual Sand

Despite its name, 'quicksand' doesn't mean it makes you sink fast.

Not Quick

Used metaphorically, quicksand describes a challenging, possibly worsening situation.

Difficult Situation

Quicksand can symbolize feelings of stress or despair that are hard to overcome.

Emotional Stress

Using 'quicksand' to describe situations may be vague. Be specific about the issues.

Avoid Clarity

 to Edward Packard saying I got lots of Spears in my back I went down a quicksand and that was so great so kids just love dying in those books for some parent reason and it also allowed Edward Packard to follow his true passion because actually figured he didn't really like law that very much and

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 for your lost pair of pants for $100, but not in a court of general jurisdiction for millions of dollars. Case dismissed without prejudice or refiling in small claims court. Takes five minutes. That's it, it's not that hard. But it's a hard hurdle because we got into this legal quicksand

Philip Howard: Four ways...

 the sand particles apart causing the ground to loosen what's left is a soggy combination of the two that can no longer support as much weight so when you stand on it you start to sink I want to find out if it's actually possible to get out of quicksand and to do that I'm

Can You Survive...

 quicksand so this really spikes your cortisol so this is the job interview we put them through because we really wanted to see what happened we then have these coders look at these tapes four of them they're blind to the hypothesis they're blind to the conditions they

Your body language...

 so they look like this. Imagine this is the person interviewing you. So for five minutes, nothing, and this is worse than being heckled. People hate this. It's what Marianne LaFrance calls "standing in social quicksand." So this really spikes your cortisol.

Your body language may...

 that will pull me in deeper, the more I move through it. So I fight to believe in people, not because it feels good, but because stories matter, and we're telling ours all the time, together. We all get stuck in quicksand -- sometimes, that's OK.

Jamil Zaki: How to...

 the power of not knowing. When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

Shekhar Kapur: We are...

 the rocks I'm just gonna take it down a little bit with the hall I don't know I'm sinking now it's gonna be soft it's like dough runoff water from the sluice leaves upon the quicksand looks like

Sulphur Surfer PIPE Yukon...

 I've been watching out so closely for predators that I run straight into something else life threatening, quicksand.

How To Survive Quicksand...

 And yet, we are still, as a nation, mired down in the quicksand of racism.

Quicksand

A type of sand that can suck in things that stand, walk, or fall on it.

Often appears as...

A situation that is dangerous or difficult to escape from.

Often appears as...

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Not Actual Sand

Not Quick

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