Quotes by Decay Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans. Bill Gross vampiredecayreal My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails. Bill Vaughan decaycuttingunderstanding That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. Brian Aldiss unhappy-childhooddecaychildren For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in. Bruce Springsteen decayresponsibilitytrying [The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. C. S. Lewis decaylogicreal When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes C. S. Lewis amuletsholy-placesdecay The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance. Carl Sagan decayignoranceamerica Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay. Carl Sandburg decayforgetpeople I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays. Carmen Laforet decaygoes-onstories 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 decayinspirationanimal Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body. Cato the Younger decayslothsoul Progress, this great heresy of decay. Charles Baudelaire decayprogressliterature The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. Charles Caleb Colton decaygreedpassion I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame. Chief Seattle decaybrothermay A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays. Chinua Achebe debtdecaybusiness He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto. D. H. Lawrence decayraceanimal I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death. David LaChapelle fragilitydecaythinking Time is the speed at which the past decays. David Mitchell decayspeedpast Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay David Toop decaystatessound Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Decimius Magnus Ausonius decaywondermen«1234567891011»
