#disappear

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#disappeared #earth #ever #face #quarrelsome

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#become #decided #depression #disappeared #during

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear. ↗

— David Copperfield

#disappear #i #just #make #me

It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#disappear #happy-ending #inspiration #life #love

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#before #courage #difficulties #disappear #into

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#candle #disappeared #failed #kidnapped #prison

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye. ↗

— Amy Grant

#back #being #could #different #different times

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#gone #government #governments #interests #other

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#fortune #good #good fortune #man #religions

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. ↗

— Erica Jong

#bankrupt #book #disappearing #down #effectively