Quotes About Deterioration

O'Neal, however, didn't take care of himself—and everyone knew it. With each Laker season he seemed a bit slower, a bit less athletic, a bit more injury prone—still otherworldly 85 percent of the time, but not 100 percent of the time, as once had been the case.

Battered by the forcefulness of the narcissist's accusatory projections and inability to engage in a meaningful exchange, we witness the codependent's continued deterioration as she descends into a true victim experience.

Concrete can rot. It turns green and black before crumbling away. Maybe only people from Congo know that.

Yes, except that nothing sleeps inside but furniture, and that's probably gone to pieces by now. Time gets into anything; yes, indeed it does; and weather helps it.

It is the little rift within the lute,That by and by will make the music mute,And ever widening slowly silence all.

Seneca, the Roman moralist, called unchastity "the greatest evil of our time". In light of this pronounced deterioration of marriage, countless Roman women engaged in adulterous sex, and when they became pregnant, they destroyed the evidence of their sexual indiscretions, thus adding to Rome's widespread abortions.

The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

Our infrastructure in America, once the envy of the world, is losing its battle against time, growth, weather, and wear.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

I feel less energetic; I get pains. My quality of life has deteriorated, and it takes me longer to recover from any form of physical activity.

The closer I get, the shittier Abbot looks. His hair is long and he seems weak and frail. He was never a big guy and it looks like he lost twenty pounds and his surgical mask droops on his face. With his bony cheekbones, when he smiles he looks like a well-dressed corpse.

Rutin, belirli bir noktada zararl? hale gelmeye baÅŸlar. Çünkü insanoÄŸlu kendi çabas? üzerindeki kontrolünü yitirir; çal??ma zaman? üzerindeki kontrolün yitmesi ise insan?n zihnen öldüÄŸü anlam?na gelir.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

Trouble is to man what rust is to iron

of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

Things went downhill pretty fast after that. Although every action and reaction felt like slow motion from Krista's perspective, the entire debacle probably took seconds.

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

I see it, I taste it. All the contamination. The low-level radiation, the storage sites, the runoff. Every place is sick—there's sick everywhere

The failure of modern culture lies not in its principle of individualism, not in the idea that moral virtue is the same as the pursuit of self-interest, but in the deterioration of the meaning of self-interest; not in the fact that people are too much concerned with their self-interest, but that they are not concerned enough with the interest of their real self; not in the fact that they are too selfish, but that they do not love themselves.

A rotten fish spoils all the fish in the basket.

The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.