Quotes About Deterioration

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

wood rot on the mantelpiece in the

Things inexorably get worse.

Once land gets in a state, once it begins to deteriorate, it is hard to reverse the process. Land falls sick just like people—that's the whole tragedy of our time.

a system is overloaded—worked beyond capacity—the result can be profound deterioration, disorganization, and dysfunction whether you are overworking your back muscles at the gym or your brain's stress networks when confronted with traumatic stress.

healthy changes in the case of the rats with control over the stress, and deterioration and dysregulation in the others.

The minute you establish an organization, it starts to decay.

Our vibrations were getting nasty. But why? Was there no communication in this car? Had we deteriorated to the level of dumb beasts?

Kulp saw something crumbling into ruins behind the lad's light-blue eyes.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

When TV came, it was a great medium and then daily soaps came in and ruined the quality of the work we were doing.

Czas robi z cia?em to samo co g?upota z dusz? - powiedzia?, wskazuj?c na siebie. - Rozk?ada je.

The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.

Incredible how rapidly the best relationship, if it is stressed beyond its capacity, wears thin and finally exhausts itself.

When a great house is about to crumble, a stick cannot keep it from falling.

The "guest house" was a creaking carcass of a shed that was being slowly sucked into the muddy ground.

If gold ruste, what shal iren do?

History started badly and hav been getting steadily worse.

We were slowly, but irrevocably, coming apart.

Michelangelo felt ill. He asked himself if what he was feeling was fear. Yet he knew that it was something more, something in his experience akin to the sacking of the Medici palace, the deterioration of Piero, an awareness of the senseless destructiveness that lay inherent in time and space, ready to lash out and destroy.

All evil is good become cancerous.

Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!

Here in the Periphery they've lost nuclear power. In Gamma Andromeda, a power plant has undergone meltdown because of poor repairs, and the Chancellor of the Empire complains that nuclear technicians are scarce. And the solution? To train new ones? Never! Instead they're to restrict nuclear power." And for the third time: "Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration—a stagnation!