Quotes of Disappearance - somelinesforyou

“ The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects — making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much. ”

- William Howard Taft

“ The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare. ”

- J. J. Greene

“ I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted. ”

- Jesse Jackson

“ Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. ”

- Rumi

“ Canada has never been a melting pot, more like a tossed salad. ”

- Arnold Edinborough

“ America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! ”

- Israel Zangwill

“ Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. ”

- Stéphane Mallarmé

“ The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. ”

- Stanley Milgram

“ Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. ”

- Mary Baker Eddy

“ Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. ”

- John Berger

“ One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills containers, etc. ”

- Unknown

“ One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills containers, etc. ”

- Unknown

“ A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. ”

- Roberto Burle Marx

“ Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep. ”

- Alexander Herzen

“ Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities… ”

- Wyndham Lewis

“ The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the bosom of the American family. ”

- Florence E. King
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