Quotes About Deterioration

Overgrown, crumbling, tilted, full of cracks, returning to the soil. Paint fell from boards, plaster from walls. Unsupervised, matter was collapsing under its own weight.

Now a little boy or girl, and many an older person, thinks that a spotted horse is the real thing, but practical cattle men know that this freak of color in range-bred horses is the result of in-and-in breeding, with consequent physical and mental deterioration.

One broken window, left unrepaired for any substantial length of time, instills in the inhabitants of the building a sense of abandonment—a sense that the powers that be don't care about the building. So another window gets broken. People start littering. Graffiti appears. Serious structural damage begins. In a relatively short span of time, the building becomes damaged beyond the owner's desire to fix it, and the sense of abandonment becomes reality.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

There's no way my body can be fixed, but what we can hope to do is keep all the deteriorative processes as minimal as possible.

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

I believe that the abominable deterioration of ethical standards stems primarily from the mechanization and depersonalization of our lives, a disastrous byproduct of science and technology. Nostra culpa!" Einstein wrote in a letter to his friend, psychiatrist Otto Juliusburger, in 1948

The man is a cabin, poorly kept.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Isto está tudo decadente: já nem decadentes há.

Nothing is like it used to be, lady," he said. "The world is almost rotten.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

That is to say, things have a way of getting worse and worse all the time, until in the end they get so bad that we lack even the means of knowing how bad they really are.

each one uglier than the next.

Hateful feelings could crop up in a marriage, like weeds pushing their way through concrete. If you weren't vigilant, they took over quickly, like kudzu, depriving love of light and air until it withered and died. It was a slow, silent death, impossible to imagine in the heat of new love.

All of it-all the things they had thought through so meticulously- fell apart

few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit

Ä°nsan bir yerde tak?l?p kald?kça, nesneler ve insanlar iyice yozla??yorlar, çürüyorlar ve s?rf sizin hat?r?n?za leÅŸ gibi kokmaya baÅŸl?yorlar.

Like the Reynolds pamphlet, these clandestine messages signal a further deterioration in Hamilton's judgment once he no longer worked under Washington's wise auspices and was left purely to his own devices.

El humano Yiannis había cuidado de ella, de la misma manera que la tecno Maitena había cuidado de Lizard. Pero ahora las relaciones entre las especies se estaban pudriendo.

better is a sure enemy to well.

physical exercise retards brain deterioration.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.