Weeds never perish.
One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly — maybe — and it will become a language like Latin that learned people learn. And scholars will write studies of and and and and and ,...
Where there is no vision, people perish.
Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
As long as a language lives, the people will not perish.
The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains.
If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.
People perish not because of lack of faith; they perish because of lack of knowledge! Know yourself!
To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work, even knowledge and light may be ill pursued. Knowledge i...
Elphaba gave him a sidelong glance. “I think you enjoy going to school, Nick. Are you sure canoodling with teenage girls isn’t your ulterior motive?” “Perish the thought, Elphaba, perish the thought. I’m too old for that.” Nick winked. �...
Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption rots. He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their ...
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
The air in my home is heavy with my mom's unhappiness. And her exhaustion. And her sheer dissatisfaction with her life. And I hate it. I can be up in my room when she's in the kitchen below and I feel her despair seeping up through the floorboards. Y...
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.
I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.
We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
