Decay Quotes
- Page 2The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
William Godwin
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
Lee Atwater
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell
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
There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
Sarah Josepha Hale
But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.
Lee Greenwood
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
Bob Dylan
Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.
John Nelson Darby
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
Harold Brodkey
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Horace
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
Octave Mirbeau
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
Robert Blair
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
Benjamin Disraeli
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Jean-Luc Godard
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
John Updike
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier
We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
Samuel L. Jackson