Quotes About The Ravages Of Time

#1. History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

Richard Lamm

#2. He wore his age like a statement that fighting the ravages of time and mortality was beneath his notice.

James S.A. Corey

#3. The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.

Norman Vincent Peale

#4. He decided to cling to those things that were wonderful about her, and to ignore the ravages of time and insecurity, instability, and anxiety.

Adriana Trigiani

#5. In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.

Nicolas Chamfort

#6. How had I become middle-aged while the ravages of time ignored her? I didn't know and didn't care, and before I could stop them, the words were already out.
"You're beautiful," I murmured.

Nicholas Sparks

#7. The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Angela Davis

#8. The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but a marble statue is cold and speaks to but a few of the most evolved who are able to infuse the statue with their own life.

Max Heindel

#9. Science, they say, can tap the brain of man and alter his desires. But the Bible, which has withstood the ravages of time ... says that we are possessed of a sinful, fallen nature which wars against us.

Billy Graham

#10. It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#11. Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Soren Kierkegaard

#12. One phrase stuck in Fainy's mind, and he repeated it to himself after he had gone to bed that night: It is time for all honest men to band together to resist the ravages of greedy privilege.

John Dos Passos

#13. You know what I mean. Is it true the folk hereabouts" - he pointed to the land ahead - "are cripples? Missing half their hindquarters?"
"The fauns? Cripples?" I laughed. "By the gods who made them, no!

Harry Turtledove

#14. Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

Douglas Adams

#15. Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent where fear of losing what we have is greater than the ambition to make it anew.

A.A. Gill

#16. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.

John A. Logan

#17. The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside.

Anthony Liccione

#18. Be your own lamp.

Gautama Buddha

#19. The constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.

Sarah-Patton Boyle

#20. As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

Jim Ramstad

#21. To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

Jean Racine

#22. I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years ... Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!

Sharon Kay Penman

#23. Remember that lettuce doesn't grow on a spruce; and it also doesn't rhyme with it.

Jakub Marian

#24. His feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.

Sarah Waters

#25. Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.

Billy Graham

#26. In spiritual terms, where ever your mind goes, that's where your soul follows.

Catherine Carrigan