dissipating QUOTES

1 " So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze. "

― Charles Frazier

2 " There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'. "

― Madeleine L'Engle

3 " I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religious
order. We have the vocation of keeping alive Mr. Melcher's excitement in leading young people
into an expanding imagination. Because of the very nature of the world as it is today our children
receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun,
for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. These are forces working in the world as
never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or
what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin.
This is the limited universe, the drying, dissipating universe, that we can help our children avoid
by providing them with “explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly. "

― Madeleine L'Engle

4 " Solitude and retirement cherish grief, employment and exertion are the only means of dissipating it. "

― Lord Melbourne

5 " We derive insightful perception by observing and studying, comparing and contrasting. Without investigating why we prefer the veil of life to the cloak of death and without considering how to create dangerously, live honorably, and die gloriously without remorse and regret, we risk dissipating what precious little shelf life our brittle humanity grants us. "

6 " Lighted advertisements went running up dark red facades and dissipating again. He would pass girls; he would turn to look; but the prettier the face, the harder it was to take the plunge. "

― Vladimir Nabokov , Glory

7 " Like the feeling of a carbonated beverage slipping down the throat, the bubbles rushing and popping as they make their descent, the air around a departed spirit fizzles, dissipating from a thick electric presence to an ephemeral blink of light and color, like the aftereffect of too many flash cameras going off at once. "

― Eda J. Vor , Lay Her Ghosts to Rest

8 " I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad! "

― , Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports

9 " Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. "

10 " I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward's reign. "

11 " The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace. "