#dissolution

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#eyes #find #fit #follow #forgive

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#decline #dissolution #drunkard #fitness #gutter

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#destroys #dissolution #nation #national #religion

I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. How could you not know? I'd thought. How could you miss all those signs? Well, let me tell you how: you were so busy putting out a fire directly in front of you that you were completely oblivious to the inferno raging at your back. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#business

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#dissolution #every #hated #institution #most

It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking. ↗

— Terry Riley

#dissolution #everybody #going #important #important point

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#did #dissolution #economy #i #intention

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#dissolution #then #trade #trade unions #unions

They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#death #decadence #dissolution #life #death

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#dissolution #evolution #tragedy #nature