Quotes About Deterioration

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products

Does this current deterioration and corruption of language, imprecision of thought, and so forth scare you—or is it just a decadent phase? AUDEN It terrifies me. I try by my personal example to fight it; as I say, it's a poet's role to maintain the sacredness of language.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

There seem to be two causes of the deterioration of the arts. What are they? Wealth, I said, and poverty. How do they act? The process is as follows: When a potter becomes rich, will he, think you, any longer take the same pains with his art? Certainly not. He will grow more and more indolent and careless? Very true. And the result will be that he becomes a worse potter? Yes; he greatly deteriorates.

deliquescing

The magic here is not spectacular courage in one or two battles but the glamour of commitment to death at the peak of youth and beauty: the poignancy of the exhib-itionistic narcissism of youth determined once and for all on magnificent expenditure rather than slow wasting and remorseless physical deterioration.

Tutte belle cose, però io avevo l'impressione che in quel tempo mio fratello non solo fosse del tutto ammattito, ma andasse anche un poco imbeliccendosi, cosa questa più grave e dolorosa, perché la pazzia è una forza della natura nel male o nel bene, mentre la minchioneria è una debolezza della natura, senza contropartita.

Suboccipital decompression is recommended in patients with cerebellar infarcts who demonstrate neurological deterioration and should be performed before significant brainstem compression occurs.

Decay is inherent in all things.

Julie wasn't as cheery, not as bright as before she'd joined them. They'd tarnished her.

Her voice sounded like a string that was fraying.

The walls were chipped and needed paint. The windows were mostly okay but one pane was blocked with cardboard. There were fleas the exterminator couldn't kill and rats that scrabbled in the walls and mice who left droppings like a cocked snook and roaches that thrived on insecticide, even the illegal kinds.

This was how the world ended. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

the house picked up again its long, slow project of decay.

The one-story wooden houses looked a set of dentures that hadn't seen Polident in years. FBI Agent Marc Wilkins

Las instituciones de seguridad se han deteriorado por los efectos combinados del dinero de los traficantes, la ausencia de una ética de servicio a la ciudadanía y la irresponsabilidad política de partidos y gobernantes pasados y presentes.

With a steady supply guaranteed, the judge really went off the deep end and things deteriorated. He couldn't do his job, couldn't sit on the bench for more than fifteen minutes without calling a recess for a quick snort. The lawyers were whispering but, as usual, didn't want to squeal. A court reporter was watching closely and knew the dirt.

There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.

The base of the water tower gave every indication of being a solid argument for tetanus shots.

The houses were vacant, and a vacant house falls quickly apart.

Brandy and water spoils two good things.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Tal como lo vemos hoy, el futuro es un piélago de deterioros, un borrador de catástrofes.

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.