Rot Quotes

190 Rot quotes by 166 unique authors

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it… — Clive Barker
Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new input. When you… — Wayne Dyer
The age I'm at now... you go from being a young girl to suddenly, you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then… — Liv Tyler
Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which… — Peter Matthiessen
October's gold is dim â€” the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp. — David Gray
To show mercy is not naÃ¯ve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course...… — Rick Yancey
Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing. . . . It is… — Richard van der Riet Woolley
I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as… — Flannery O'Connor
If it doesn't rot, it's not real food. — Joel Salatin
Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people… — James Altucher
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was… — Dorothy Parker
I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that… — Henry Adams
Like going to the dentist, where you write: "Dental appointment today. All of the dentists in Boulder are 'holistic.' They can't fill a cavity but… — Ken Wilber
You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time. — Chris Kilham
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker… — Hannah More
Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to… — Keith Miller
Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot… — E L Doctorow

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