Quotes of: Decaying Keyword

I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?

Pulp

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Henry Miller

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

C.S. Lewis

Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays.

James Cronin

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

Henry W. Kendall

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there.

Edward Burtynsky

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

Wim Wenders

It's as though a smile is ageless, or perhaps eternal, independent of the decay and collapse of the surrounding features.

Life

The tides of time should be able to imprint the passing of the years on an object. The physical decay or natural wear and tear of the materials used does not in the least detract from the visual appeal, rather it adds to it. It is the changes of text...

Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

The tides of time should be able to imprint the passing of the years on an object. They physical decay or natural wear and tear of the materials used does not in the least detract from the visual appeal, rather it adds to it. It is the changes of tex...

Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

Garrett Hardin

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Bruce Springsteen

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

William Godwin

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes....

Jerry Saltz

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Bob Dylan

I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.

Howard Shore