Snatched Quotes

71 quotes by 64 authors

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. — Hannah Arendt
Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will… — Alexander Alekhine
A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to… — Robert Doisneau
Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see… — Alexander Hamilton
In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept… — Albert Einstein
You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean… — John le Carre
We are human behind and this part of our human nature that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.… — Malala Yousafzai
Love? he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had… — Faraaz Kazi
Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away. — Mary McMullen
I could take back those moments that snatched you away from me or maybe just wipe away those ten minutes when you came to me… — Faraaz Kazi
Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving… — Adi Shankara
Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own. — Fulton J. Sheen
This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in… — Susanna Kaysen
The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the… — H.G. Wells
During Richard Nixonâ€™s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the Southâ€™s ability to… — Melvin Laird
Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had… — Elizabeth Knox
Confidence is not some nonphysical quality snatched from the spiritual dimension and installed in the mind. It is the feeling that arises when the body's… — Matt Fitzgerald
Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die.… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with others. The memory… — Robert Doisneau

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