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I built walls up years ago, because the war that happened really messed me up. I did n’t want to get hurt like that again, but with this earthquake, I feel those walls crumbling. I am remembering things I do n’t want to remember, and I ca n’t think of anything else. Others, like Zahra and Ameer Alsamman, say they are struggling with survivor’s guilt, possessed with a relentless, sinking feeling that no matter how much they help it wo n’t be enough. – Abdulrahman Al-Dahhan Mourning	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You could feel the energy. It was electric. I think after the 2020 election, and because of the shock of all the things that happened, and the answers that we never really feel that we got, this sinking realization that we might actually be losing our country, I think that it pushed Joe Raedle/Getty Images into an angry space, where Joe Raedle/Getty Images does n’t trust anybody, where Joe Raedle/Getty Images does n’t listen to anybody, where Joe Raedle/Getty Images’s almost likely to believe that everybody is trying to turn their back on Joe Raedle/Getty Images and stab Joe Raedle/Getty Images in the back. And again, I do n’t believe that that’s leadership. – Candace Owens	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I saw it( freezer) wasn't sinking. I jumped( inside it), it fell to one side and kept normal. – Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was desperate. I thought my end was coming. But thanks My God , the boat, God gave me one more chance, i saw it( freezer) wasn't sinking. I jumped( inside it), it fell to one side and kept normal. – Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's sinking in, i think as we go forward, really that appreciation of our history and how that came to be is so important. – Dave Roberts	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My main concern is [ the ] sinking of the soil, which means that we also have problems with living on the water. – Ineke van Gent	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There were three other crew members on board besides me. I announced to them that the boat was sinking, and they had to leave. – Vladimir Putin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Thank you for what you've done for us, thank you for keeping my aunt safe and never forgetting her, it's still sinking in. – Rey Chavez	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Thank you for what you've done for us, thank you for keeping my aunt safe and never forgetting her. It's still sinking in. – Rey Chavez	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We as the family want to say thank you, thank you for what you've done for us, thank you for keeping my aunt safe and never forgetting her. It's still sinking in. – Rey Chavez	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think in general, people became more vigilant, you know, don't walk by yourself or go out late ... It's the reality sinking in that this is real, we all have to be cautious, we escort each other home or give each other a ride. – Chinese American	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I cried tears of joy when I read the headline about Evusheld. Finally, we had hope, and then to have it dashed -- well, the reality is sinking in. – Diane Barron	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It was sunrise the morning after 9/11, you could look at it and see the immense task ahead of everybody. And also, there was just like a degree of it sinking in, that it was going to be a new normal for New Yorkers and for everybody looking at it the next day. – Yoni Brook	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is one of the most urgent problems for civilized man. He has created civilization to give him security. Security for what? For boredom? His chief problem seems to be that most human beings need a certain amount of challenge, of external stimulus, to stop them from sinking into the blank stare and blank consciousness of the idiot. – Colin Wilson	added by Normando 2 years ago
I was happy enough just to be here, honestly, I'm just pretty lost for words at the moment. It’s still all sinking in. – Izaac Stubblety-Cook	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think the weight of what we've accomplished is finally sinking in, it was an overwhelming and exhilarating day to be here, to have the chance to work on something since you were 13 years old, and to finally have the chance to share that with the world. – Josh Friedberg	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Rain ultimately flows back to sea, and because it is freshwater rather than saltwater, it is less dense than the seawater it is draining into, this means it can form a cap at the surface rather than sinking and circulating. – Catherine Bradshaw	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We admitted him wherever we found a bed. It was a nursing home but wasn’t functioning like one. Patients were getting their own oxygen, the hospital was rationing its oxygen supply to patients and my brother was sinking so we were forced to rush him to another hospital but he didn’t make it. – Kameshwar Kumar	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
The hospital was rationing its oxygen supply to patients and my brother was sinking so we were forced to rush him to another hospital but he didn’t make it. – Kameshwar Kumar	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
You know that sinking feeling when you realize you signed up for something but haven't used it in ages ? at Netflix, the last thing we want is people paying for something they're not using. – Eddy Wu	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's also the economic reality sinking in. – Simon Black	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The guy who comes in second doesn't get concessions, the problem with Bernie is that his ideas are so huge, they are sinking his campaign. Biden can't take those on. – Matt Bennett	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
So heres what to watch for. If the Iranians follow through on their threat to starting reaching again at higher levels to basically take their enrichment program to a kind of a nuclear level in terms of a weapons grade production, Israels in a world of hurt, so the best thing the president can do is stop that. And how do you stop that to make Iran understand youre not going to let that happen? I think you should put their oil refineries on our target list, and that he should look at sinking the Iranian Navy if they attack shipping again. – Lindsey Graham	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It's unfortunate to find that people travel aboard a small boat and there is not even a manifest, with a heavy cargo of goods. The people had no life jackets,... which calls for the sanctions of all the perpetrators who contributed to this sinking. – Vital Muhini	Found on CNN 5 years ago

I built walls up years ago, because the war that happened really messed me up. I did n’t want to get hurt like that again, but with this earthquake, I feel those walls crumbling. I am remembering things I do n’t want to remember, and I ca n’t think of anything else. Others, like Zahra and Ameer Alsamman, say they are struggling with survivor’s guilt, possessed with a relentless, sinking feeling that no matter how much they help it wo n’t be enough.

– Abdulrahman Al-Dahhan Mourning

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You could feel the energy. It was electric. I think after the 2020 election, and because of the shock of all the things that happened, and the answers that we never really feel that we got, this sinking realization that we might actually be losing our country, I think that it pushed Joe Raedle/Getty Images into an angry space, where Joe Raedle/Getty Images does n’t trust anybody, where Joe Raedle/Getty Images does n’t listen to anybody, where Joe Raedle/Getty Images’s almost likely to believe that everybody is trying to turn their back on Joe Raedle/Getty Images and stab Joe Raedle/Getty Images in the back. And again, I do n’t believe that that’s leadership.

– Candace Owens

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I saw it( freezer) wasn't sinking. I jumped( inside it), it fell to one side and kept normal.

– Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was desperate. I thought my end was coming. But thanks My God , the boat, God gave me one more chance, i saw it( freezer) wasn't sinking. I jumped( inside it), it fell to one side and kept normal.

– Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's sinking in, i think as we go forward, really that appreciation of our history and how that came to be is so important.

– Dave Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My main concern is [ the ] sinking of the soil, which means that we also have problems with living on the water.

– Ineke van Gent

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There were three other crew members on board besides me. I announced to them that the boat was sinking, and they had to leave.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Thank you for what you've done for us, thank you for keeping my aunt safe and never forgetting her, it's still sinking in.

– Rey Chavez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Thank you for what you've done for us, thank you for keeping my aunt safe and never forgetting her. It's still sinking in.

– Rey Chavez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We as the family want to say thank you, thank you for what you've done for us, thank you for keeping my aunt safe and never forgetting her. It's still sinking in.

– Rey Chavez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think in general, people became more vigilant, you know, don't walk by yourself or go out late ... It's the reality sinking in that this is real, we all have to be cautious, we escort each other home or give each other a ride.

– Chinese American

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I cried tears of joy when I read the headline about Evusheld. Finally, we had hope, and then to have it dashed -- well, the reality is sinking in.

– Diane Barron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was sunrise the morning after 9/11, you could look at it and see the immense task ahead of everybody. And also, there was just like a degree of it sinking in, that it was going to be a new normal for New Yorkers and for everybody looking at it the next day.

– Yoni Brook

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is one of the most urgent problems for civilized man. He has created civilization to give him security. Security for what? For boredom? His chief problem seems to be that most human beings need a certain amount of challenge, of external stimulus, to stop them from sinking into the blank stare and blank consciousness of the idiot.

– Colin Wilson

added by Normando
2 years ago

I was happy enough just to be here, honestly, I'm just pretty lost for words at the moment. It’s still all sinking in.

– Izaac Stubblety-Cook

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think the weight of what we've accomplished is finally sinking in, it was an overwhelming and exhilarating day to be here, to have the chance to work on something since you were 13 years old, and to finally have the chance to share that with the world.

– Josh Friedberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Rain ultimately flows back to sea, and because it is freshwater rather than saltwater, it is less dense than the seawater it is draining into, this means it can form a cap at the surface rather than sinking and circulating.

– Catherine Bradshaw

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We admitted him wherever we found a bed. It was a nursing home but wasn’t functioning like one. Patients were getting their own oxygen, the hospital was rationing its oxygen supply to patients and my brother was sinking so we were forced to rush him to another hospital but he didn’t make it.

– Kameshwar Kumar

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The hospital was rationing its oxygen supply to patients and my brother was sinking so we were forced to rush him to another hospital but he didn’t make it.

– Kameshwar Kumar

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

You know that sinking feeling when you realize you signed up for something but haven't used it in ages ? at Netflix, the last thing we want is people paying for something they're not using.

– Eddy Wu

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's also the economic reality sinking in.

– Simon Black

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The guy who comes in second doesn't get concessions, the problem with Bernie is that his ideas are so huge, they are sinking his campaign. Biden can't take those on.

– Matt Bennett

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

So heres what to watch for. If the Iranians follow through on their threat to starting reaching again at higher levels to basically take their enrichment program to a kind of a nuclear level in terms of a weapons grade production, Israels in a world of hurt, so the best thing the president can do is stop that. And how do you stop that to make Iran understand youre not going to let that happen? I think you should put their oil refineries on our target list, and that he should look at sinking the Iranian Navy if they attack shipping again.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's unfortunate to find that people travel aboard a small boat and there is not even a manifest, with a heavy cargo of goods. The people had no life jackets,... which calls for the sanctions of all the perpetrators who contributed to this sinking.

– Vital Muhini

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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