Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color… — Sigbjørn Obstfelder Copy Share Image
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower, That Time upon her angel brow should set His crooked autograph, and mar the jet… — Isaac McLellan Copy Share Image
This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want… — Curt Siodmak Copy Share Image
Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. — Walter Smith Copy Share Image
I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image