Vanishes Quotes
121 Vanishes quotes by 107 unique authors
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But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves…
— Virginia Woolf
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Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not…
— Georges Lemaitre
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Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like…
— Saadi
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Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard…
— Arthur Miller
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one…
— Tatyana Tolstaya
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Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of…
— Friedrich Schiller
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Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears…
— Samuel Johnson
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the…
— Yann Martel
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Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and…
— Milton Glaser
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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
— Peter Drucker
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
— Patricia Highsmith
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Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient…
— Paul Klee
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
— Jim Morrison
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The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship.…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Let the liberal turn to the course of action, the course of all radicals, and the amused look vanishes from the face of society as…
— Saul Alinsky
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Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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