The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its… — Victor Hugo 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
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
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
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
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
Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy… — Julie Powell 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
Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as… — Barry Commoner 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
“Maybe,' he said hesitantly, 'maybe there is a beast.' The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. 'You, Simon?… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. — Robert Browning 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
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
Dropt tears have hastened your decay And brought you one step nigher death; And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved, The music of… — Eleanor Farjeon 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
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
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
One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
