Evanesces Quotes & Sayings

From early childhood his mother had taught him that to discuss in public a profound emotional experience-which, in the open air, immediately evanesces and fades, and, oddly, becomes similar to an analogous experience of one's interlocutor-was not only vulgar, but also a sin against sentiment. — Vladimir Nabokov

It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system. — Austan Goolsbee

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees. — Wangari Maathai

Isn't it the unexpected that teaches us the most? — Marwa Ayad

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries. — Milan Kundera

Declare independence, don't let them do that to you! — Bjork

Whenever we went on a trip, picnic, or business trip, I was always with my dad, and I would just always be in contact with cosmonauts, and I thought it would be always normal to be with them. — Roman Romanenko

Everyone in Seattle is a total pussy when it comes to snow. The whole city shut down, the place looked like an apocalyptic movie. — Hamilton Leithauser

Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. — Oscar W. Firkins

A man who has been shaken by a two-ton blockbuster has a frame of reference. He can equate the impact of an H-bomb with his own experience, even though the H-bomb blast is a million times more powerful than the shock he endured. To someone who has never felt a bomb, bomb is only a word. An H-bomb's fireball is something you see on television. It is not something that incinerates you to a cinder in the thousandth part of a second. So the H-bomb is beyond the imagination of all but a few Americans, while the British, Germans, and Japanese can comprehend it, if vaguely. And only the Japanese have personal understanding of atomic heat and radiation. — Pat Frank

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition. — Jane Austen

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. — Honore De Balzac

The Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction. — Nathaniel Hawthorne