#erase

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#also #because #big #dignity #erased

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#divinity #erased #hand #human #human nature

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#childhood #erased #feelings #filled #many

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#been #died #erase #eventually #face

It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#hard #hard time #i #love #memory

The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#because #blank #blank page #easily #either

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased. ↗

— Judy Chicago

#art #begun #concern #contribution #erased

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly. ↗

— Raoul Dufy

#eyes #made #ugly #were

Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#collective #country #erase #genocide #iran

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know. ↗

— Amelie Mauresmo

#erase #first #guess #happened #i