“ 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 sweet it is to die! ”
- Anna Letitia Barbauld- Copy
- 467
“ Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one… ”
- Rod McKeun- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
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“ Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ I have always been waiting for something better — sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me. ”
- Dorothy Reed Mendenhall- Copy
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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- Copy
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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 one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity. ”
- Robert Doisneau- Copy
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“ Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. ”
- J. R. R. Tolkien- Copy
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“ I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul. ”
- Conrad Veidt- Copy
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“ Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow — or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends. ”
- Zelda Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness. ”
- Margaret Oliphant- Copy
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“ Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure. ”
- Richard Iannelli- Copy
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“ My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. ”
- Elizabeth Gaskell- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die… ”
- John Tillotson- Copy
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