Quotes About Erode

#1. The sea was no stranger to the rock on the beach. The sea came often to the rock, rushing up wetly against its warm grey, and always as it swept away it took an infinitesimal part of the rock with it. The rock had known the waves for a long time, and learned it was in its nature to erode.

Chew Chia Shao Wei

#2. Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

John Frankenheimer

#3. There is a danger in exposing yourself to too much vapid art. It can weaken your judgment and erode your sensibilities, until the time comes when you see things that are merely passable, and somehow think that they're good.

David Farland

#4. The government continues to erode our freedom.

Diane Black

#5. The fact that the people who built the site didn't care enough to make things obvious - and easy - can erode our confidence in the site and the organization behind it.

Steve Krug

#6. There is one day that has brought me unspeakable pain, & the effects of that day continue to cover & erode my world like rust. I suspect that someday the rust will eat through the joists & posts of my life & I will topple, literally as well as figuratively.

Richard Paul Evans

#7. The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry. Even this capacity may erode over time if it does not relate to experiences and problems that recur in the student's later life.

Derek Bok

#8. The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

Tim Holden

#9. Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

Ronald Reagan

#10. The descent of sport into spectacle is not unique to the age of genetic engineering. But it illustrates how performance-enhancing technologies, genetic or otherwise, can erode the part of athletic and artistic performance that celebrates natural talents and gifts.

Michael J. Sandel

#11. God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.

Bob Riley

#12. And I want you now
I want you now
I'll feel my heart implode
And I'm breaking out
Escaping now
Feeling my faith erode

Muse

#13. War would soon erode the facade of their building as though it had accelerated time itself, a day's toll outpacing that of a decade.

Mohsin Hamid

#14. When we tend to be too hard on those we love, we erode the softness of our souls in the process, taking out the humanity within us that is the nucleus of our goodness, even if our actions are for their own sake.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#15. Teenagers have a natural curiosity and are keen to clock up experiences. What they need to be wary of is that some experiences may erode their sense of self and lead to a fragmentation of morals.

Alexandra Adornetto

#16. Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

Ugo Betti

#17. The cost of ignorance is high and it can erode life, vision and wealth to the barren grounds of poverty and perplexity.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#18. It's important that you don't continue to ignore or accept rages. Realize that extreme rage directed at you or your children is verbal and emotional abuse. Even if you think you can handle it, over time it can erode your self-esteem and poison the relationship. Seek support immediately.

Randi Kreger

#19. In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.

Sadegh Hedayat

#20. Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#21. Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

Alfie Kohn

#22. Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#23. Eventually, I would wear him down. That's what friends do: we weather until we erode every possible doubt a relationship can bring until we have a smooth stone to cast in our river of life.

Christina L. Barr

#24. The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#25. The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.

Jim Rohn

#26. The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

William Hague

#27. When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience.

Edward T. Welch

#28. The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.

Ron Wyden

#29. Each day of war takes us farther from all we could hope to be or do. We gain nothing but heartbreak, and lose everything we cherish. Our lives erode and diminish, our children see no future except a calendar of anguish and death. Our only hope for tomorrow is for peace now.

Lloyd Alexander

#30. To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

Grace Napolitano

#31. Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be carried out in ways that erode due process, rule of law and the protection of innocent citizens' political and civil rights.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#32. If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.

Andy Stanley

#33. Lust of ease and comfort absolutely destroys mental toughness and begins to slowly erode ones character.

William James Moore

#34. Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.

Abigail Van Buren

#35. I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.

George W. Bush

#36. A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#37. Why should we allow international markets to erode domestic labor regulations through the back door when we do not allow domestic markets to do the same? The

Dani Rodrik

#38. He was maxed out. He had no
resources left to do anything else. That's what happens
when you're tired. Your decision-making skills erode. You
start missing things - things that you would pick up on
any other day.

Malcolm Gladwell

#39. So often, we believe we are alone in the privacy of our fantasies, but that is a delusion as well - and perhaps the most dangerous kind. For in letting ourselves forget about the common threads of our innermost wishes, we erode our foundations and lose the keystone of our souls.

Tiffany Baker

#40. It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

Sam Harris

#41. Why does time erode relationships? Is there a way to avoid its relentless lapping? Is any love strong enough to withstand the chipping away?

Ellen Hopkins

#42. Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

Robert Gottlieb

#43. To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends.

John Ashcroft

#44. When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

Margaret Heffernan

#45. Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.

James Surowiecki

#46. When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Mary Frances Berry

#47. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young, erode. We end up belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself. [p. 66]

Julian Barnes

#48. There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.

Sadegh Hedayat

#49. Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.

Mike Pence

#50. Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.

Bob Seger

#51. Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

James Surowiecki

#52. If the people aren't looking out for the community, then the benefits of a community erode. Many companies have star employees and star salesmen and so on, but few have a culture that produces great people as a rule and not an exception.

Simon Sinek

#53. Avoid any semblance of pornography. It is dangerous and addictive. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized and your conscience will erode.

Thomas S. Monson

#54. We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

Paul Ryan

#55. One of the things people need to realize about sugar is that it is essentially a drug, something that elicits an emotional and automatic response in the body that is not healthy and can erode your discipline as a healthy eater.

Nick Meyer

#56. The toxicity of love coupled with pain can erode even the strongest heart.

Kevin Wilson

#57. Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

Richard Branson

#58. While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under the law, and weaken the protection of political and civil rights on the Internet.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#59. The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.

Cheryl Hughes

#60. So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

Gregory Maguire

#61. Unfortunately, by forcing more and more value off the books as the world economy turns into an information economy, the ideal of "free" information could erode economic interdependencies between nations.

Jaron Lanier

#62. Does the river make the choice to erode the rock?

Deb Caletti

#63. Not all breaks are clean. Sometimes we crumble, sometimes we erode. And those erosions, Eppie-the ones that chip away at our hopes and dreams and out plans for the futures-those are often a lifetime in the making. It's those we must watch out for, my dear.

Megan Squires

#64. Let us not rush into a vast expansion of government power in a misguided attempt to protect freedom. In doing so, we will inevitably erode the very freedom we seek to protect.

Bob Barr

#65. If there's anything I have learned since returning to Congress, it's that talk is still cheap, progress is still slow, and our liberties continue to erode every day.

Matt Salmon

#66. We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.

James E. Faust

#67. Real wealth is discretionary time. Money is simply fuel for your life. You can always make another dollar, but you can't make another minute. Don't let the pursuit of money erode your wealth.

Alan Weiss

#68. An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present.

Romany Malco

#69. We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

Barbara Jordan

#70. Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.

Joseph Badaracco

#71. There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

Bill O'Reilly

#72. I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time on, I loathed an economic that could put a huge part of its workforce on the streets with no compunction.

Herbert Schiller

#73. Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.

Joan D. Chittister

#74. Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.

Martin Rees

#75. Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

Emile M. Cioran