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Quotes About Erosion

every day represents more and more subtracted from less and less
~ Christopher Hitchens
sách là má»™t sinh v?t y?u Ä'u?i, nó ch?u Ä'á»±ng sá»± bào mòn c?a th?i gian, s? các loài g?m nh?m, k? th?y, k? h?a, và e ng?i nh?ng bàn tay v?ng v?, c?c m?ch.
~ Umberto Eco
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~ Umberto Eco
A mountain had died, its skeleton had been scattered over the ground. Time had aged the mountain; time had killed the mountain-and here lay the mountain's bones.
~ Vasily Grossman
April 14 had been dubbed Black Sunday. Apparently three hundred thousand tons of Great Plains topsoil had flown into the air that day. More soil than had been dug up to build the Panama Canal. The dirt had fallen to the ground as far away as Washington, D.C.
~ Kristin Hannah
Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution. And it was designed to eat the Constitution. To progress past the Constitution.
~ Glenn Beck
The Rockies are therefore very young and should never be thought of as ancient. They are still in the process of building and eroding, and no one today can calculate what they will look like ten million years from now. They have the extravagant beauty of youth, the allure of adolescence, and they are mountains to be loved.
~ James A. Michener
Seventeen consecutive years of irregular war, extended years of budget uncertainty, and an increasing complex security environment have eroded our competitive edge.
~ Mark Esper
Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.
~ Robert Duncan
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
~ Theresa May
The only way to stop the erosion in network television is to come up with shows that are very popular.
~ Fred Silverman
In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was a kind of tumbler. The same as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. All of us, we're meant to be worn smooth by conflict and pain of every kind. To be polished. There was nothing bad about this. This wasn't suffering, it was erosion.It was just another, a basic, an important step in the refining process.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
All around us, erosion and insects are just chewing up the world, never mind people and pollution. Everything biodegrades with or without you pushing.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn't suffering. It's erosion.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Time is on our side. Not only will we erode America from the outside, but with the help of your own countrymen we will eventually cause it to crumble from within.
~ Clive Cussler
Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
~ Virgil
j'ai songé alors que ce qui est violent, ce n'est pas le temps qui passe, c'est l'effacement des sentiments et des émotions. Comme s'ils n'avaient jamais existé.
~ Laurence Tardieu
Making love to him was like going through a car wash, except you came out dirtier and more alive at the other end.
~ Charles Baxter
and behind them the quivering mucosity of her tongue.
~ Charles Baxter
These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here.
~ James Joyce
Turns out an apocalypse actually comes on pretty slowly. Not fire and brimstone, but rust and dandelions. Not a bang but a whimper.
~ James Patterson
Actually, the notion of what is acceptable for a moral government to do seems to have eroded in some ways since 9-11. Not to get too political here, but countries, including our own, seem to have accepted what was once almost unimaginable - condoning torture, for example, and even criminalizing peaceful protest.
~ Gail Simone
Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.
~ Charles Vest
Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo