Petrification Quotes

#1. It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

H. Rider Haggard

#2. It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and
requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification

Albert Einstein

#3. Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him
this leads to spiritual petrification.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#4. Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Mark Twain

#5. If blood alone is what defines us, no child born is born in freedom.

Nalini Singh

#6. It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.

Wallace Stevens

#7. My beauty comes from having my own style, living my own way and knowing my own mind.

Lee Damsky

#8. I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now.

Trent Reznor

#9. With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.

Michael Symon