#fad

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#cold #cold war #commanded #crushing #curtain

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade. ↗

— Barnabe Barnes

#born #die #dust #fade #flourishing

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#century #faded #forms #later #old

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#beauty #eyesight #fades #his #like

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. ↗

— Bill Gates

#death #each #eu #even #fad

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#away #bible #enthusiasm #europe #faded

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#another #away #day #dress #evening

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist. ↗

— Kent McCord

#business #fade #friendships #hollywood #insist

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#android #barbie #children #complaint #creep

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. ↗

— Grace Paley

#believe #early #fads #fidelity #i