Snatched Quotes
71 quotes by 64 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see…
— Alexander Hamilton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.
— Mary McMullen
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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
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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
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Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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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
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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
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During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability to…
— Melvin Laird
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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
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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
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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
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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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