#vanish

You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#acting

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#badly #critical #environment #especially #had

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#sight #society #them #vanish #which

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#continues #crime #explode #face #fact

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. ↗

— James Buchan

#altogether #between #both #cities #distinction

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#anticipated #attractions #based #began #book

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#constantly #improved #increased #knowledge #vanishes

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#approaching #arriving #departing #ever #farther

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#corner #day #down #eye #her

I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#had #how #i #i do #never