Decays Quotes

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. — Richard Burton
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. — Ezra Pound
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and… — Joseph Addison
Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking… — Frederic Joliot-Curie
I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our… — Carmen Laforet
When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it. — James Norman Hall
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the… — Andy Goldsworthy
My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no… — Andy Goldsworthy
The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays. — Eric G. Wilson
Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones… — Edward St Aubyn
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy,… — Mark Twain
Surely revival delays because prayer decays. — Leonard Ravenhill
Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working.… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control. — Jethro Tull
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays. — Chinua Achebe
Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect… — Thalassa Cruso
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body. — Lucretius
People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term… — Brandon Stanton
The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within… — Marcus Aurelius
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly. — Gregory Maguire
I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust — Vladimir Nabokov
When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of… — Octavio Paz

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