Corrodes Quotes

#1. Reality is brutal or painful or frightening, but waiting is a distillate of fear that corrodes and dissolves.

Simon Mawer

#2. Respectability is a curse; it is an "evil" that corrodes the mind and heart. It creeps upon one unknowingly and destroys love. To

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#3. Jealousy is such a potent threatening emotion. It doesn't just eat you alive - it eats you from within. It's venom that spreads in your bloodstream, polluting you, killing you. It corrodes you until there's nothing left.

Mia Asher

#4. One's first love is the most transformative and least replicable experience. I could love someone else, but it would be its own unfathomable emotion. It would not be this precious, first, spring love. If I cannot love her fully, it will be a love that corrodes within me.

Thomm Quackenbush

#5. The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

Lord Acton

#6. Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.

Jindrich Styrsky

#7. Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.

Blaise Cendrars

#8. Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

Aidan Chambers

#9. The feeling of uselessness is no respecter of age and never asks permission, but instead corrodes people's souls, repeating over and over: 'No one is interested in you, you're nothing, the world doesn't need your presence.

Paulo Coelho

#10. A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.

Ming-Dao Deng

#11. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

B.C. Forbes

#12. Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

D. A. Carson

#13. Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#14. Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

Mark Twain

#15. Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

Rene Balcer

#16. Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity

Gregory Maguire

#17. The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

B.C. Forbes

#18. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

Milan Kundera

#19. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil, and maybe splits apart and multiplies.

Gregory Maguire

#20. Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

Morrissey

#22. Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why the psychiatrists say, "Love or perish." Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#23. Just as rust produced by iron corrodes iron, so is the violator of moral law destroyed by his own wrong action.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#24. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#25. That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

Eric Hoffer

#26. The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.

James Risen

#27. Iron turns red when it corrodes, and copper turns green. Meat turns to maggots, and thoughts turn to speech.

Stepan Chapman

#28. The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation
abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue. It is a "virtue" that corrodes self-esteem.

Nathaniel Branden

#29. Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.

Wilder Penfield

#30. Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.

Owen Feltham

#31. Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence,

Jon Meacham

#32. Casual reliance on unnamed sources ... corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

Bill Keller

#33. Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity.

Edward Gibbon

#34. The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

Murray Bookchin

#35. Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

Brene Brown

#36. Not only the Jew, but also all that is derived from the Jewish mind, corrodes and disintegrates what is best in us.

Houston Stewart Chamberlain