There's small choice in rotten apples.
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When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.
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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
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As an anti-American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.
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What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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He is a man of splendid abilities but utterly corrupt. He shines and stinks like rotten mackerel by moonlight.
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A beautiful girl can you make you dizzy... like you've been drinking Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high - Full of the single greatest commodity known to man-Promise. Promise of a better day. Promise of a great hope. Promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura, can be found in the gate of a beautiful girl... in her smile... in her soul... and in the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like it's going to be okay.
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Or I shall live your epitaph to make, Or you survive when I in earth am rotten;...
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You don't run against a bloody stop watch, do you hear? A runner runs against himself, against the best that's in him. Not against a dead thing of wheels and pulleys. That's the way to be great, running against yourself. Against all the rotten mess in the world. Against God, if you're good enough.
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Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty ... makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator's psyche.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumour of rotten principles.
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So now prosperity begins to mellow And drop into the rotten mouth of death.
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I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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Rotten wood cannot be carved.
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Emotion is a rotten base for politics.
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My reputation is a media creation.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten,
either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.
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