Vanished Quotes
230 quotes by 200 authors
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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also…
— Margaret Atwood
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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money -…
— James Buchan
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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again…
— William Beebe
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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the…
— Tecumseh
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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is…
— John F. Kennedy
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains?…
— Agnes Repplier
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"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which…
— Lewis Carroll
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Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:…
— William Wordsworth
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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have…
— Mark Twain
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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished…
— Tecumseh
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The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see…
— Hasan of Basra
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Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.
— Beaumont Newhall
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... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping for a moment from his…
— Robert Adams
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Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening.…
— Marshall McLuhan
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My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left,…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.
— Georges Rodenbach
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