The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country,… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet… — Simon Schama 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
Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy… — Bhartrhari 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 real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance. — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. — Niccolo Machiavelli 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
The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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