Crumbling Quotes - Page 5

• Todas estas ideas no son radicales. La gratuidad de los colegios y universidades públicas, que existe en países de todo el mundo, existía antes en Estados Unidos. Reconstruir nuestras maltrechas infraestructuras y crear 13 millones de puestos de trabajo eliminando las lagunas fiscales de las que ahora disfrutan las grandes empresas que colocan su dinero en las Islas Caimán y otros paraísos fiscales. No es una idea radical.

  Bernie Sanders

  País, Empleo, Universidad

  Bernie Sanders durante el Debate de Candidatos Presidenciales Demócratas en la Universidad de New Hampshire en Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. 5 de febrero de 2016.

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• Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved to a crumbling stately heap on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in southwest France, about 60 miles from Bordeaux: wine instead of cocaine.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Giving Up, Writing, Wine

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in the western world that interest me as much as Los Angeles - which might sound like heresy, but most cities, history has already happened and the people living there are sort of living on the bones of the thousand years of history that's already happened there. Whereas LA is always reinventing itself.

  Moby

  Cities, Years, People

  "'La humildad que viene de ser odiado': Moby Entrevistado". Entrevista con Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. 9 de mayo de 2011.

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• There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.

  Moby

  Government, Cities, Los Angeles

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• I'm guessing our soldiers are happy to be leaving Iraq. It is no fun being in a country where there's crumbling infrastructure and an ignorant population, but they said they're happy to come home anyway.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Fun, Home

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• The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Real, Unseen, Details

  Sri Aurobindo (1970). “Letters on Yoga”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried, or that the world is crumbling when it is, as everyone can see, there as usual. If all A that does not fit B is ipso facto disqualified, we have to tailor A to shape and size to avoid serious trouble, and not all are equally gifted in this art.

  R. D. Laing

  Art, People, Usual

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• La Asamblea aprobó un presupuesto que toma las decisiones correctas para los jóvenes estudiantes de todo el estado, ayudando a las escuelas a evitar el recorte de programas educativos esenciales, el despido de profesores y el aumento de los impuestos locales sobre la propiedad. Sin una inversión sólida en nuestros hijos y su educación, New York se enfrentaría a edificios escolares en ruinas, aulas superpobladas y pocas oportunidades para sobresalir.

  José Peralta

  Profesor, New York, Niños

  "DA Brown, Council Candidates Get Dem Nod" por John Toscano, www.qgazette.com. 21 de mayo de 2003.

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• La educación es como un edificio en ruinas que necesita un mantenimiento constante con reparaciones y ampliaciones.

  Edith Wharton

  Needs, Upkeep, Building

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• White as a winding sheet,
  Masks blowing down the street:
  Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone.
  The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling,
  Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling,
  The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.

  Edith Sitwell

  Paris, White, Vienna

  "Façades". Book by Edith Sitwell, 1922.

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• Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.

  Benito Mussolini

  Italian, Giving, Matter

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• On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.

  P. E. Cleator

  Civilization, Dying, Mars

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• Eternity! How know we but we stand
  On the precipitous and crumbling verge
  Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?

  Abraham Coles

  Eternity, Knows, Verge

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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• Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.

  Jenna Morasca

  Jobs, Hardest Job, Pieces

  "Jenna Morasca y Ethan Zohn comparten su historia de amor, supervivencia y lucha contra el cáncer". Entrevista con Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. 10 de mayo de 2011.

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• How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,--the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Running, Fall, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.413

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• Enormes nudos de algas colgaban de las piedras dentadas y puntiagudas, temblando con cada soplo de viento; y la hiedra verde se aferraba lúgubremente alrededor de las oscuras y ruinosas almenas. Detrás se alzaba el antiguo castillo, con sus torres sin tejado y sus macizos muros desmoronándose, pero hablándonos con orgullo de su propio poder y fuerza, como cuando, setecientos años atrás, sonaba con el choque de las armas o resonaba con el ruido de los festines y las juergas.

  Charles Dickens

  Hierba, Naturaleza, Muro

  Charles Dickens (2016). "Charles Dickens: Las novelas y cuentos de Navidad completos (ilustrados): 30 Clásicos en un Volumen: Cuento de Navidad, La batalla de la vida, Las campanillas, Oliver Twist, El terreno de Tom Tiddler, El acebo, Doctor Marigold, Los papeles Pickwick, Grandes esperanzas y más", p.3653, e-artnow.

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• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Paz, Poder, Guerra

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• When your world is in pieces, you can choose to see it as crumbling or building. Your attitude, resilience and determination mark the difference.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, Determination, Attitude

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• The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!

  Denis Diderot

  Love, Change, Time

  "Jacques el Fatalista". Libro de Denis Diderot, 1796.

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• My dogs, the only creatures on the planet marked by my singular nurturing imprint, have all turned out to be rude and self-absorbed. In all likelihood, if they were children instead of dogs, I would have foisted more Charlie Sheens or Kardashians onto our crumbling culture.

  Merrill Markoe

  Dog, Children, Self

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• The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

  Franz Grillparzer

  Country, Wall, Chinese

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• una fortaleza contra las ideas y contra
  estremecedor choque insidioso de los vendedores de teorías
  Los pequeños sardineros hacinados en un juguete monstruoso
  Que inclinan su bestia agregada contra nuestra Troya que se desmorona.

  Louis MacNeice

  Men, Ideas, Tilt

  Louis MacNeice (2015). "Collected Poems", p.44, Faber & Faber.

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• Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something.

  Andrew Natsios

  Cities, Crumbling Infrastructure, Serious

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• Aquella primavera escribí muchísimas cartas: una a la semana a Naoko, varias a Reiko y otras tantas a Midori. Escribí cartas en clase, escribí cartas en mi mesa de casa con la gaviota en el regazo, escribí cartas en mesas vacías durante mis descansos en el restaurante italiano. Era como si escribiera cartas para mantener unidos los pedazos de mi vida que se desmoronaba.

  Haruki Murakami

  Primavera, Hogar, Escritura

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• La ruina es un don. La ruina es el camino hacia la transformación.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Tough Times, Ruins

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