Quotes About Erosion

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Time had eroded all shock value.

left uncorrected in an organization, victim attitudes can erode productivity, competitiveness, morale, and trust to the point that correction becomes so difficult and expensive that the organization can never fully heal itself

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothingis immune.

Grief is an eroding wind. After grief has blown through, there is just the bedrock of a person.

Adults who faced early life stress show greater erosion in what's known as telomeres—which are protective caps that sit on the ends of strands of DNA to keep DNA healthy and intact. As telomeres erode, we're more likely to develop disease, and we age faster. As our telomeres age and expire, our cells expire, and eventually, so do we.

while the likelihood of cultural erosion remains irresistible the options for cultural defence continue to be unacceptable.

I wish I could sit here for eons and watch as these sandstone walls crumble, grain by grain and fall to floor this dry wash, become rearranged by water and wind, compressed to other cliffs, excavated into other canyons, and feel the wind all the same. The rock changes, the channel changes, the wind just carries air from one place to another, more constant than the rock. The rock is ephemeral, the wind, eternal.

Calculaba cuántas veces habíamos hecho el amor. Tenía la impresión de que, cada vez se había añadido algo más a nuestra relación, pero también de que precisamente esa acumulación de gestos y de placer era sin duda lo que iba a alejarnos el uno del otro. Estábamos agotando un capital de deseo".

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.

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

Personal brand equity erodes much faster than corporate brand equity.

Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.

If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

Something Rich and Strange She was less of what she had been, the blue rubbed from her eyes, flesh freed from the chandelier of bone. He touched what once had been a hand. The river whispered to him that it would not be long now.

The United States has lost one-third of its topsoil since colonial times—so much damage in such a short history. Six to seven billion tons of eroded soil, about 85 percent, are directly attributable to livestock grazing and unsustainable methods of farming feed crops for cattle. In 1988, more than 1.5 million acres in Colorado alone were damaged by wind erosion during the worst drought and heat wave since the 1950s.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Every thirty-one hundred years a volume of water equivalent to all the oceans passed through the atmosphere.

Over time his images of the baby, like photographs handled too often, had worn down and creased, lost their definition.

I've been concerned about ethics in government for a long time. And the problems we've had under President Trump are only indicative of the longer-term problem of the erosion of public office and government.

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life.

There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world's highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine.