I meet millions who tell me that they feel demoralized by the decay around us. The hope that each of us has… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together… — William James Copy Share Image
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
In all of the person I used know.Why would you be the first to go??.Even I keep blaming myself for what you… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay… — Peter Bayne Copy Share Image
The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Another agricultural trend of growing concern is the increased nutrient content of coastal waters resulting from fertilizer runoff in agricultural regions. Augmented… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar,… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh,… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay... — John Donne Copy Share Image
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay: And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality,… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding… — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
