Top 100 Evaporate Quotes
#1. As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.
Alan Cohen
#2. Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it were my money? I'm amazed how many theoretical arguments evaporate when faced with this question.
Kent Beck
#3. Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long life story of a dwarf. And besides, this was a dream. It could evaporate any moment.
Haruki Murakami
#4. Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life.
Nancy Pelosi
#5. We can gain experience from the past, but we cant relive it. But we can hope for the future, Its always along side us, on the inside of us looking out. The past should not be allowed to evaporate but should exist only in memories.
Sean Sullivan
#6. Our new millennium began, and it seemed a little bit possible--though surely if we examined the thought too closely, it would evaporate--that a brighter time might be ahead; we have, after all, the round, clean slate of the new number, the row of zeros after the initial digit in 2000.
Mark Doty
#7. Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.
Richard Pascale
#8. Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate.
George Nelson
#9. But love was not about practice or preparation, it was pure chance; if you took your time with it you ran the risk of having it evaporate before it had even begun
Alice Hoffman
#10. There are a thousand ways in which his neighbours can evaporate the essence which is all in all to him, while they at the same time give to his scenery ponderable value which to them is worth far more
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
#11. Unnumbered suppliants crowd Preferment's gate
Athirst for wealth, and burning to be great;
Delusive Fortune hears th' incessant call,
They mount, they shine, evaporate, and fall.
Samuel Johnson
#12. Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
Barbara Kingsolver
#13. Ninety-five percent of the trading errors you are likely to make - causing the money to just evaporate before your eyes - will stem from your attitudes about being wrong, losing money, missing out, and leaving money on the table. What I call the four primary trading fears.
Mark Douglas
#14. Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.
Dan Brown
#15. He's kissing like he doesn't have a minute to waste, like I'll evaporate under his hands if he doesn't keep pace.
Liz Reinhardt
#16. I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can and buy records whenever possible. If we lose the independent record store, we lose big. Every time you buy your records at one of these places, it's a blow to the empire.
Henry Rollins
#17. They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog burned off the river in summer. My mother rubbed the kites on my hands and arms and told me to think of my lungs as balloons. I just want to feel safe, I said.
Shane Jones
#18. Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
John Denham
#19. The more people learn about them (Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton) and how they handle the pressure, the more their support will evaporate.
Joe Biden
#20. That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
Bob Edwards
#21. If you don't EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.
Usher
#22. I thought that maybe if I shoved the pain in there hard enough and I kept the box shut tight enough that the pain would evaporate on its own, that I'd open the box one day to find it was empty and all of the pain I thought I'd been carrying with me was gone.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#23. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Jose Marti
#24. And yet I was filled with grief. In the beginning of all love there is grief, because at that moment you're closest to the ghost of parting. You know how easily it could all slip away, how easily it could evaporate into eternal, never-to-be-consummated longing.
Edeet Ravel
#25. A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate ...
Suzanne Collins
#26. Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
Jack Canfield
#27. Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust
#28. I had tasted cake and there was no going back. My tiny body had morphed into a writhing mass of pure tenacity encased in a layer of desperation. I would eat all of the cake or I would evaporate from the sheer power of my desire to eat it.
Allie Brosh
#29. Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer
#30. So you're a badass assassin, huh? You don't look like much to me. (Stranger)
You have three seconds to evaporate or I'm going to spray your brain matter all over your crew behind you. (Adron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything down. As soon as I write it down, my mind rejects it.
Junot Diaz
#32. She knew, too, that love didn't evaporate. It faded, perhaps, lost its weight like bones left out in the sun, but it didn't go away.
Kristin Hannah
#33. Because it exists as a living sonority, music is animated by voices, and these voices do not evaporate when music confronts the insights of contemporary literary criticism, or philosophy of language.
Carolyn Abbate
#34. If I have to stay my whole life here, without ever experiencing there, I'll evaporate.
Masha Hamilton
#35. Shame is also a covert and effective bullying method. All those bullies from the seventh grade didn't simply evaporate. They grew up, too, and it's pretty safe to assume that the majority did not seek therapy on their eighteenth birthday to explore their disturbing childhood need for cruelty.
Augusten Burroughs
#36. Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.
Samuel P. Huntington
#37. I always think [W.S.] Merwin's poems will last of anyone writing today. If I had to bet on posterity I would bet Merwin. My poems could easily evaporate. So I don't know. If you find yourself as a writer thinking about posterity you should probably go out for a brisk walk or something.
Billy Collins
#38. For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, we
breathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember,
yielding us fainter fragrance.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#39. Gotta bounce," I say, remembering that's what I heard someone say to someone sometime somewhere, at school or maybe it was on TV, or in a movie, probably not even from this decade, but who cares, all I know is I have to get away before I evaporate or crumple or cry.
Jandy Nelson
#40. When exactly do the abuses that have been tolerated for so long become intolerable? When does the fear evaporate and the rage generate action that produces joy?
Rebecca Solnit
#41. Perhaps someone had once hoped to lighten the air of the blue room in Hill House with a dainty wallpaper, not seeing how such a hope would evaporate in Hill House, leaving only the faintest hint of its existence, like an almost inaudible echo of sobbing far away...
Shirley Jackson
#42. It's odd how faces, solid and visible as they are, evaporate, while words, made of breath, stay.
Elif Shafak
#43. Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I just watched it evaporate. You look one moment and there's everything, next moment it's gone. Photography is very philosophical.
Joel Meyerowitz
#44. If a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge.
Dale Carnegie
#45. Those times, against all expectations, were turning out to be good times. Then he felt afraid, because he knew they couldn't last long and those stolen drops of happiness and peace would evaporate.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#46. Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.
Napoleon Hill
#47. Jesus once trusted Judas, appointing him treasurer of the disciples, and openly called him friend. But as so often happens when money is involved, years of friendship can quickly evaporate.
Bill O'Reilly
#48. The land will sink into the water, and then, the water will evaporate into the air, taking the sky with it. And all, but a tremor of what once was, will be gone. ~ Ichabod Everward, during the Fossil War.
Ryan Mark
#49. Nothing that truly matters
Can ever evaporate,
Be excised,
Burnt out of your soul.
Scott Hastie
#50. When his brain died, all of the memories
held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate
in a flood of chemical reactions.
Dan Brown
#51. Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is not from Him in this way is an experience that is going to evaporate very soon.
Watchman Nee
#52. No living person could disappear like Sofia. She'd have a go-bag stashed somewhere. Money and passports and disguises, with just enough ice to evaporate.
Cindy Skaggs
#53. Inspector Hewitt flicked on the defroster to evaporate the condensation our words were forming on the windscreen.
Alan Bradley
#54. Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.
Isaac Asimov
#55. He's seriously good looking. I was kind of hoping he was into guys because I've never seen him take an interest in girls before-but he was fixated on you like he was afraid you would evaporate or something.
Bonnie Erina Wheeler
#56. There's something about the sight of a gorgeous guy in an open convertible heading in your direction that makes all bad feelings evaporate into thin air.
Daria Snadowsky
#57. I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people tell you is what you want to hear.
Robert Penn Warren
#58. When dreams evaporate into the clouds and come back down as tiny rain droplets, are they the same dreams, or something altogether new?
Marilyn Grey
#59. I have enough of a fan-base that I don't feel it is going to evaporate. I don't feel like I have a fleeting fan-base. I don't feel like it is coming from some trend-driven thing where I'm no longer going to be hip. I've come and gone through all that.
Joel Plaskett
#60. We're all water from different rivers,
That's why it's so easy to meet,
We're all water in this vast, vast ocean,
Someday we'll evaporate together.
Yoko Ono
#61. In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open.
Dave Eggers
#62. I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate.
Aldous Huxley
#63. Comets develop their distinctive tails when their surface material begins to evaporate as they approach the Sun.
Bill Bryson
#64. We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.
Selma James
#65. The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats
#66. While public funds evaporate in feasts of fraternity, a bell of rosy fire rings in the clouds.
Arthur Rimbaud
#67. I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.
Desmond Tutu
#68. When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
Laurie Anderson
#69. For though there was no chance of persuading a pension fund manager looking to make a longer-term loan to buy a Freddie Mac bond that could evaporate tomorrow, one could easily sell him the third tranche of a CMO.
Michael Lewis
#70. I asked you a question. What are you doing here?"
Resting his elbows on the side of the tub, he smiled lazily. She hated it when he smiled lazily. "Waiting for the bubbles to evaporate," he said.
Sandra Hill
#71. We recognised from the start that we couldn't just stay in the U.K. and Ireland markets. We have always looked to the products of the future. I've always said, 'If you don't innovate, you'll evaporate.'
Martin Naughton
#72. If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that's no kind of behavior for a planet.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#73. You are water
I'm water
we're all water in different containers
that's why it's so easy to meet
someday we'll evaporate together.
Yoko Ono
#74. What part of ourselves needs to evaporate in order to concentrate our essence? What do we have to let go?
Andrew Weil
#75. No-frill rappers: you will evaporate, disintegrate, deflate to your fate,
as the great will dominate straight to the state
Of reignin', gainin' ... So put Kane in
That category. Period. End of story.
Big Daddy Kane
#76. For a wise man, I have been told, once said, 'Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.' But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.
Isaac Asimov
#77. In some situations, no one has courage to challenge the reason. Since faith causes the reasoning to evaporate.
Girdhar Joshi
#78. Anything electronic seemed fundamentally magical to Shadow, and liable to evaporate at any moment.
Neil Gaiman
#79. When the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.
Howard Snell
#80. long-ingrained attitudes don't just evaporate in a generation.
Jessica Bennett
#81. Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.
Jim Butcher
#82. Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
Amy Carmichael
#83. This moment is not life waiting to happen, goals waiting to be achieved, words waiting to be spoken, connections waiting to be made, regrets waiting to evaporate, aliveness waiting to be felt, enlightenment waiting to be gained. No. Nothing is waiting. This is it. This moment is life.
Jeff Foster
#84. It was a pointed sigh, as sighs sometimes are, not one cast into the air to evaporate, but one calculated to descend, precisely and with great effect, on a target.
Alexander McCall Smith
#85. Rising Sun jostles hard to evaporate doom filled clouds;hovering ancient land.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#86. I had definitely never heard of anyone peeing in a cup and leaving it in their own office on a bookshelf to evaporate and be absorbed back into their body through the pores on their face.
Tina Fey
#87. I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
Rowan Atkinson
#88. And before you know it, the object disappears, arguments evaporate; no culprit is discovered, the offense ceases to be an offense and becomes a matter of fate, like the toothache which cannot be blamed on anyone, and the only thing that's left is, once again, to bang the wall as hard as you can.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#89. Never flash-evaporate a kitten.
Wetdryvac
#90. Time evaporate, money is always needed, comforts found where they were not expected and excitement dug up in barren ground.
Susan Sontag
#91. And I feel like all the tension and bad feelings between us evaporate into nothingness.
Jenny Han
#92. Everything may evaporate at any instant. Everything!' I said with surprising vehemence. 'You, me, the most rocklike personality since Calving Coolidge; death, destruction, despair may strike. To live your life assuming otherwise is insanity.
Luke Rhinehart
#93. The content people have no clue. I mean, no clue. The cost of bandwidth is going down to nothing. And the size of hard drives is getting so big, and they're so cheap, that pretty soon you'll have every song you own on one hard drive. The content distribution industry is going to evaporate.
Bram Cohen
#94. Maybe if i just lie under the sun long enough I will melt like an ice cube and all my sadness will evaporate into the air so i can start again.
Angie Cruz
#95. I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.
Gero Miesenbock
#96. Unresolved grief is created when we don't allow ourselves to work through feelings as they arise. If we deny having painful feelings or put them on a shelf, they don't simply evaporate. Rather, unresolved feelings gnaw at our energy, prey on our emotions, and generally debilitate us.
Sue Patton Thoele
#97. If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#98. I am watching parts of me evaporate like sidewalk water. This wet grey, this nighttime dew, gone before morning.
Sarah Kay
#99. Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth ... then the sun will begin to die, life will be extinguished, the oceans will boil and evaporate away.
Carl Sagan
#100. I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
Jack Keane
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