Quotes About Deterioration

Mam wra?enie, jakby ten kraj naprawd? umiera?. -Tyle lat szarpaniny. Zestarzeli?my si?, skapcanieli?my wydaj?c te nasze pó?legalne biuletyny, odezwy, które ma?o kto czyta. Owszem, m?odzie?. Ale m?odzie? ?eni si?, p?odzi dzieci, kupuje ma?ego fiata, wydzier?awia dzia?eczk?, sadzi pomidory. Zalewa nas mieszcza?stwo, sowieckie mieszcza?stwo.

How's Alison getting on?' Conway snorted. 'Tucked up in the sick room like she's dying in some season finale. Little fadey voice on her and all. She's having a great old time.

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

A healthy person that uses medical oxygen to perform their job on a daily basis should expect to eventually become a sick person.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

a better explanation may be the fundamental deterioration of standards in both legislation and governance that we see in nearly every democracy, regardless of their different twentieth-century histories

Washington kept telling itself that the U.S. was running faster, blindly ignoring the deterioration in the U.S. position, the rise in China's capabilities, and the staggering reliance on Taiwan and South Korea

But the United States lost more than its innocence in the 1960s. Its moral deterioration constituted one of the most catastrophic collective mental breakdowns the world had ever witnessed.

As Roran watched, the man's arms, neck, and chest shriveled, and his bones appeared in sharp relief-from the bowlike curve of his collarbones to the hollow saddle of his hips, where his stomach hung like an empty waterskin. His lips puckered and drew back farther than they were intended to over his yellow teeth, baring them in a grisly snarl, while his eyeballs deflated as if they were engorged ticks being squished empty of blood, and the surrounding flesh sank inward.

T?pk? a??r? sevecenliÄŸin bir savaÅŸç?y? yumuÅŸat?p güçsüz düÅŸürmesi gibi, bu a??r? sahip ç?k?c? ve üste titreyen sevgi de, kitab? önünde sonunda öldürecek olan hastal???n etkisine aç?k bir duruma gelecekti.

But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.

When those who found this skeleton attempted to disengage it from that which it held in its grasp, it crumbled to dust.

He soured on life some seconds after he was born and has made a profession of deteriorating ever since.

Maybe everything deteriorates in time, and maybe that doesn't make it any less worth having while it lasts.

In fact, our government has been all too eager to encourage the continued deterioration of the family structure by assuming more and more responsibilities that should be dealt with at home. That's particularly true when it comes to government schools.

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What interests me about the eyes is that they are part of the body that doesn't age. In other words, if one looks for ones childhood across all the signs of aging in the body, the deterioration of musculature, the whitening of the hair, changes in height and weight, one can find one's childhood in the look of the eyes.

To begin with, the room was not large enough for two. It looked out on a small courtyard. 'Looked out' means only that the room had two windows, against which the courtyard malevolently pressed, encroaching day by day, as though it had confused itself with a jungle.

Jack went deep-vein sclerotic. He chugged digitalis straight from the vial. He chased it with desk-jug scotch.

Mark-to-market losses are not real loss. It's a notional loss. What we can monitor is the credit quality of the underlying papers. Are the companies paying interest on time? Is there any deterioration in the credit quality of these companies?

Obsessive love wears down both its target and the obsessor.

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.