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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. -- Patricia Highsmith
In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes. -- Martha Beck
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. -- Theodor Adorno
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. -- Peter Drucker
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. -- Arthur Machen
Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars. -- Frans Lanting
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. -- Jim Morrison
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined. -- Philip Guston
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. -- Paul Klee
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. -- Milton Glaser
Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach. -- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.' -- Astro Teller
Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. -- Henry Beston
You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees. -- Susanna Clarke
Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal. -- Tatyana Tolstaya
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. -- Swami Vivekananda
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning. -- Chiaki Kuriyama
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device, a library card and an Internet connection. In this new reality, the only incentive to buy, rather than borrow, an e-book is the fact that the lent copy vanishes after a couple of weeks. -- Scott Turow
I buy most of my plants from nurseries outside London these days, but there is a man who mysteriously appears each February to sell plants from a derelict site in Market Road. I think he's Greek, but people say he comes from Essex. He vanishes at the end of May only to reappear in December as suddenly as he went. -- Diana Quick
Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. -- Yann Martel
My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them. -- Natascha McElhone
Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes. -- E. M. Forster
Courage is like magic, courage vanishes crisis. -- Amit Kalantri
What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes. -- Carl Sandburg
A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning. -- Paul Valery
Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow. -- Steven Kotler
Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say? -- William Butler Yeats
Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord. -- Paul Klee
Sheesh, one hot girl walks into the house and all trust vanishes. -Vane Weston -- Shannon Messenger
All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes. -- Mark Doty
The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes. -- Adele Parks
When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air. -- D.T. Suzuki
Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart. -- Elbert Hubbard
The gray has no chance against that smile. It vanishes in a wonderful haze of bright color. -- Harlan Coben
When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close. -- Henri Nouwen
Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. -- Robert A. Heinlein
If you want a glory that does not vanish, then do not glory in a glory that vanishes -- Ibn Ata Allah
Much of the fear of doing something wrong vanishes when we are knowledgeable about what we are doing. -- Andrew Saul
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession. -- Chester Barnard
By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained. -- Chanakya
If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. -- Douglas Adams
This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next. -- Michelle Moran
When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same. -- Ibn Arabi
Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment? -- Jack Kornfield
Any anger I feel vanishes. What is left cannot be described. It is guilt piled onto emptiness and set afire. -- Bryan Reardon
Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains. -- Ramana Maharshi
[Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day. -- Nayantara Sahgal
Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed. -- Jean Baptiste Massillon
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country? -- Walter de La Mare
Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself. -- Sengcan
Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish. -- Chanakya
What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish. -- Haruki Murakami
If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes. -- Ludwig von Mises
Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes. -- Ian Mcewan
Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns. -- Rama Swami
While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse. -- Hannah Arendt
For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure. -- Annea Lockwood
...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love. -- William Allen White
During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour. -- Leon M. Lederman
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes. -- L. Ron Hubbard
When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence. -- Maria Edgeworth
I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer. -- Andres Segovia
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No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream. -- Saadi
You need to lose yourself and disappear in the depths of the repetitions? Find a coast and watch the repetitive waves! Soon your mind vanishes away and when your mind disappears you disappear! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes. -- Samuel Johnson
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed. -- Voltaire
Nothing means anything here. When they pull down an outstanding building, no one objects. Oh, maybe there's a wee protest from some collectors or something who take a picture of it before it vanishes. -- Billy Connolly

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