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
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
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay,… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
What has the [Donald] Trump administration done from their inaugural address, where they talked about decay and carnage? They've done nothing except… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a wall is slowly covered over by earth, the materials it's made from decay and become part of the soils around… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
That's the van? It looks like a rotting banana." This was undeniable - Eric had painted the van a neon shade of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay,… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies,… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image