Best 41 quotes in «rust quotes» category

Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.

When it comes to staying tuned: if you rest, you rust.

Worry... is rust upon the blade.

With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

But when oxidation nibbles more slowly - more delicately, like a tortoise - at the world around us, without a flame, we call it rust and we sometimes scarcely notice as it goes about its business consuming everything from hairpins to whole civilizations.

Beneath the rust and grime which dulls the shine of our weathered hearts, joy patiently waits to be rediscovered

I am ready to burn up but not ready to rust down.

Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease.

Elimu ni ufunguo wa maisha lakini wengine funguo zao zina kutu!

Human mind and body metals appear to be lost through radio frequency exposure and I call this hypothesis: Internal Human Corrosion

I stared out of the window, at my Bronco rusting in the parking lot, the metal eager to get back to just being dirt. Life was probably easier for it back then.

Pure gold does not rust. Only gold alloys do so. You may have golden dreams. But if you go in the company of toxic people, your become "a gold alloy" and what that means is that you can rust at any time!

Iron can only be destroyed by rust, and rust is a slow process which is caused by the hydrogen ion from water in the environment. Coat yourself against negative thoughts and be careful what you feed your mind because your mind is your greatest asset, make sure you are not using it against yourself.

You know, rust is just oxidation. The same chemical process as fire. Oxygen interacts with steel, electrons drift from one element to the other. So really, rust is a slow fire. Isn't that weird? Water causes something to burn.

Negativity pierces determination like rust. Stay coated with faith and confidence.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

You cannot shine if you are unused, for then you will rust and deflate.

Better to wear out than rust out.

Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.

. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to have done so much heroin and cocaine - and I wasn't going to. Not if I'm paying for it!

If it rusts, it can never be trusted If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him Yes, pride is Like a blade.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

If you have feet, walk! If you have wings, fly! Whatever you have, use them! Don't let them to rust!

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

It's more impressive," I said out loud. "From a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it.

Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.

I would rather wear out than rust out.

I think ring rust is an excuse people use when they don't box well.

Solitude may rust your words.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.