Quotes having the keyword Decay
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
by Charles Mackay (Poet, British , born in 1814) keywords: arise, away, before, death, decay, dies, each, forms, hath, his, life, nature, nothing, sad, shall, some, such, taken , thing There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.
by Arthur Middleton (Politician, American , born in 1742) keywords: because, country, decay, general, generation, god, know, religion , rising I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
by Henry Miller (Author, American , born in 1891) keywords: always, being, decay, expression, growth, just, life, looked, rich, upon , wonderful When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
by Octave Mirbeau (Writer, French , born in 1848) keywords: away, decay, give, naked, off, pungent, shows, smell, souls, such, tears, them , veils Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
by Flannery O'Connor (Author, American , born in 1925) keywords: decay, during, experience, falls, hair, novel, often, out, teeth, terrible, which , writing Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
by George Orwell (Author, British , born in 1903) keywords: bring, chaos, connected, decay, end, improvement, language, political, probably, some, starting , verbal 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.
by Sallust (Historian , Roman) keywords: also, beginning, blessings, decay, end, everything, fall, find, fortune, health, increases, must , rises All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.
by Egon Schiele (Artist, Austrian , born in 1890) keywords: after, beautiful, been, behind, birth, decay, eternal, even, fruit, given, great, how, joy, leave, must, noble, qualities, shall, therefore, united, vitality, which, will , your Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet, English , born in 1792) keywords: decay, evil, good, government, itself, make, men, necessary, only, thoughtlessness, vices, will , wise On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
by Hu Shih (Philosopher, Chinese , born in 1891) keywords: achievement, basis, better, biological, death, decay, historical, immortality, individual, knowledge, larger, lives, recognize, self, should, sociological, subject, sum, total , worse Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
by Walter Smith (Athlete, Scottish , born in 1948) keywords: decay, disappear, down, gentlest, god, looking, our, rear, ruins, stay, toil , works Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
by John Updike (Novelist, American , born in 1932) keywords: alone, bloom, dare, decay, disreputable, early, go, incorrigible, late, may , writers If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
by Jack Valenti (Businessman, American , born in 1921) keywords: causing, crime, decay, down, going, moral, movies, ought, then , up 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.
by Wim Wenders (Director, German , born in 1945) keywords: cinema, course, credible, criticism, decay, film, french, greatest, making, movies, nations, problem, real, still, terms, very , world Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
by George Whitefield (Clergyman, American , born in 1714) keywords: among, assemble, christianity, decay, least, many, may, neglecting, ourselves, perhaps, reasons, religious, sad, societies, together , true He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
by Harold Wilson (Statesman, English , born in 1916) topics: Change keywords: architect, cemetery, change, decay, human, institution, only, progress, rejects , which
