Quotes About Corrosion

#1. With the front casing removed, he fired up the boiler and showed him the colour of the gas flame. 'It should normally burn blue, but due to corrosion, the flame is blue to orange, which is a tell-tale sign of leaking carbon monoxide.

B.P. Smythe

#2. People who live in private spaces contribute actively to the dilution and corrosion of the public space. In other words, they exacerbate the circumstances which drove them to retreat in the first place.

Tony Judt

#3. He felt water run down his back from the damp brickwork he was sitting against, and as he worried distantly about corrosion he realised you can always fall a little further. A moment ago he thought he'd bottomed out, but now he was concerned about personal rust. Mother of fuck.

Christopher Brookmyre

#4. I saw the pity in him. A part of me wanted to take it, wanted to tell him how I'd struggled against those hooks, how I'd watched William die. A part of me longed to lay it all down, that weight I carried, the acid pain of memory, the corrosion of hate. Lundist

Mark Lawrence

#5. The only reason I don't kill him," he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of vocal cords, "is because he's not important enough.

Frank Beddor

#6. feel that, however steady a man is, if he has an unstable wife to whom he is devoted, then there is a corrosion at work on his own foundations.

Winston Graham

#7. Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.

Samuel Johnson

#8. Ah, he would take her beyond
beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul.

Edith Wharton

#9. My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out.

King Tuff

#10. A part of me longed to lay it all down, that weight I carried, the acid pain of memory, the corrosion of hate.

Mark Lawrence

#11. Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

William Cowper

#13. Man is even as steel, the essence of which is hidden: through admonition and explanation, good counsel and education, that essence will be brought to light. If, however, he be allowed to remain in his original condition, the corrosion of lusts and appetites will effectively destroy him.

Baha'u'llah

#14. I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

Karolyn Grimes

#15. It's strange: We leave the movie having enjoyed its conclusion so much that we almost forgot our earlier reservations. But they were there, and they were real.

Roger Ebert

#16. A man is courageous
only when he is also afraid.

Erich Maria Remarque

#17. And he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.

John Steinbeck

#18. God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart forever; the vulture the very creature he creates.

Herman Melville

#19. Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.

P. J. O'Rourke

#20. But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.

E. M. Forster

#21. We joke around a lot with our ballclub.

Bill Laimbeer

#22. I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Marlene Dietrich

#23. I like older people; I think older people have a lot of flavor.

Art Alexakis

#24. When life knocks you down and you land on your knees, you are in the best position to pray.

Mitch Kynock

#25. Sorry officer, today I'm not in the mood to break the laws.

Toba Beta

#26. I choose to be happy now

Cierra Rantoul

#27. Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Frederick Douglass

#28. I may not believe that 'all things happen for a reason.' But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen.

Shellen Lubin