I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body. — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
One of the untold elements of the rapid decay underway in the Obamacare exchanges is the massive shift toward the Medicaid managed… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom. — Kurt Richebacher Copy Share Image
The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“Franz said 'Your picture, Viki, suggests that sense of breaking-up we feel in the modern world. Families, nations, classes, other loyalty groups… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Gary is a really impoverished town; it's in industrial decay. There's low employment and things of that nature. — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
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