Natural Decay Quotes

#1. The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.

Florentijn Hofman

#2. It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'

Caitlin Doughty

#4. A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

Orrin Woodward

#5. When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

Adam Smith

#6. The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's where I find a lot of inspiration. There is just as much beauty there, but there is also decay and violence.

Carrie Brownstein

#7. When Al Gore urges the citizenry to sacrifice their plastic shopping bags, their air-conditioning, their extraneous travel, the agnostics grumble that human activity accounts for just 2 percent of global carbon-dioxide emissions, with the remainder generated by natural processes like plant decay.

Steven D. Levitt

#8. I'll take a donut over a man any day of the week.

Janet Evanovich

#9. The sweetest music this side of heaven.

Guy Lombardo

#10. Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

Blaise Pascal

#11. When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game, or the game will change you.

T.F. Hodge

#12. Idleness would have seemed not only a sign of moral decay, but an affront to the natural order of things.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. When fluoridated water was first introduced as a potential prevention against tooth decay, it was a natural product: calcium fluoride, to be exact. Now if there's fluoride in our water, it is sodium fluoride, which is literally a toxic waste product of the aluminum industry.

Amy Myers

#14. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature cannot touch with decay

Bob Dylan

#15. Democracy in India is only a 'top dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic'.

Josy Joseph

#16. Love is a person's idea about his/her needs in other person what you are attracted to.

Thomas Hobbes

#17. When the natural resources of any nation become exhausted," he warned, "disaster and decay in every department of national life follow as a matter of course."2

Michael Wolraich

#18. Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

Gottfried Leibniz

#19. I can always hear Harry screaming in the shower cause shampoo goes in his eyes, and Louis always goes in and helps him.

Zayn Malik

#20. For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death.

Hannah Arendt

#21. I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Bob Dylan