Rust Quotes

178 quotes by 151 authors

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard… — Ali Smith
Just as gold tarnished in depth (cf. Jms. 5:3) cannot be properly purified and restored to its proper brightness unless it is cast in the… — Symeon the New Theologian
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want… — Ben Vereen
If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust. — Shania Twain
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. — Antoine Rivarol
I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit. — Jeanne Calment
I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly… — Matthias Schoenaerts
Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us… — Dalai Lama
We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust. — Joan Baez
No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct… — Lawrence Durrell
We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so… — Max Planck
We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out. — Theodore Roosevelt
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon… — Jack Gilbert
Solitude may rust your words. — Anais Nin
Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the… — Charles Caleb Colton
I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes. — W.C. Fields
If you rest, you rust. — Helen Hayes
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. — Milan Kundera
I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air… — Keith Moon
I'd much rather wear out than rust out. — Dan Rather

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