Top 38 Dissipating Quotes
#1. I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my dread for human beings. I came even to feel that if I had to sell every last possession to obtain these means of escape, it would be well worth it.
Osamu Dazai
#2. Of course there is sometimes a price to pay. While I was busy painting, not only was my light dissipating quickly, but the fog had crept in slowly at the same time. When I lifted my eyes from the panel, I realized that I had better get a move on - and quickly.
Cory Trepanier
#3. Time was something that moved in fits and starts for Magnus, dissipating like mist or dragging like chains, but when Alec was here, Magnus's time seemed to fall into an easy rhythm with Alec's, like two heartbeats falling into sync.
Cassandra Clare
#4. I had someone a month ago tell me at a campaign lunch that you can't be a Christian and a Democrat. I think that that view is dissipating very, very fast.
Erwin McManus
#5. Three more fireworks shot up over the freeway, contorting into purple stars as they burst against the dissipating smoke.
Robyn Schneider
#6. The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.
Virginia Postrel
#7. 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
#8. Entropy, the idea that the natural flow of heat is from something hot to something cool - not the other way - so that the universe itself is cooling down, running down, dissipating its energy.
Octavia E. Butler
#9. Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them.
Timothy Snyder
#10. When I look around at this world, we women need each other so badly, it breaks my heart. Sisterhood is dissipating, and we aren't doing nearly enough to salvage it. Eliminate the crazies in your life, yes. But also look again at those around you.
Grace Gealey
#11. This period of dissipating novelty during which the cement and aggregate of life turns everything concrete.
Geoff Sturtevant
#12. I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by
you can't run and stay mad!
Kathrine Switzer
#13. I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. When we discover and build upon our gifts it spurs positive feelings in us and those around us, and those feelings go a long way toward dissipating the burden of failure that many young Aspergians carry as kids.
John Elder Robison
#16. 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.
Kevin Kwan
#17. A wise friend told me that we all could use more than one set of parents - our relations with the original set are too intense, and need dissipating.
Alice Adams
#18. Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.
Tayari Jones
#19. 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
#20. I believe we all have a unique journey, whether its a journey of pure energy, if there's any intelligence within the journey. But I think each of us have our own way of dissipating or entering a new field.
Patti Smith
#21. Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.
Rick Perry
#22. Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.
Swami Vivekananda
#23. No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.
Napoleon Hill
#24. To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones.
Roberta Bondar
#26. The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.
Herbert Lom
#27. Rhett: If you've made up your mind to impale someone, do it with conviction.
Rowena Cherry
#28. My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
Keira Knightley
#29. Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
Sydney J. Harris
#30. It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.
Jonathan Evison
#32. One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels.
Carmen Electra
#33. My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.
Ron Reagan
#34. Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
Charles Dickens
#35. Sometimes, you still have days when you don't just feel right, like there is a kind of congestion, and the flow isn't there. You're just not playing clearly.
Tommy Flanagan
#36. There were people in the world whose purpose seemed to be to serve as points of connection. They opened us up to each other, and to ourselves.
Alexandra Bracken
#37. Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.
Amity Gaige
#38. Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.
Rod Stewart
