Vanished Quotes

230 quotes by 199 authors

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and… — Henry James
Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I have used my… — Joyce Tenneson
The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory… — Elie Wiesel
Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well… — Cynthia Ozick
You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven,… — Florence King
You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot… — Brandon Sanderson
Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the… — Ted Strickland
Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex. — Kazuo Ishiguro
The big leap that happened to me and my business came to me when one of my rules disappeared... So much of what we believed… — Vishen Lakhiani
Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the mind… — John O'Donohue
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the… — Walter Pater
On either side in Time, there's nothing similar to Now, only memories or imaginings . The place you were ten seconds ago has vanished, and… — Arthur J. Deikman
Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity,… — H P Lovecraft
I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished. — Richard Eder
America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have… — Bill O'Reilly
The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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