Rust Quotes

A relationship that is truly genuine does not keep changing its colors. Real gold never rusts. If a relationship is really solid and golden, it will be unbreakable. Not even Time can destroy its shine.

~ Suzy Kassem

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.

~ Alan Bradley

His friends told him that nobody was interested in his goddam soul unless it was the priest and he managed to answer that no priest taking orders from no pope was going to tamper with his soul. They told him he didn't have any soul and left for the brothel.He took a long time to believe them because he wanted to believe them. All he wanted was to believe them and get rid of it once and for all, and he saw opportunity here to get rid of it without corruption, to be converted to nothing instead of to evil. The army sent him halfway around the world and forgot him. He was wounded and they remembered him long enough to take the shrapnel out of his chest - they said they took it out but they never showed it to him and he felt it still in there, rusted, and poisoning him - and then they sent him to another desert and forgot him again. He had all the time he could want to study his soul in and assure himself that it was not there. When he was thoroughly convinced, he saw that this was something that he had always known.

~ Flannery O'connor

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

~ Steven Magee

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

~ John Mark Green

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!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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.

~ Uzoma Nnadi

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

~ Vikrmn

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.

~ Leah Raeder

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

~ Manoj Arora

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

~ William Shakespeare

I don't fear that a man will wear out as quickly as he will rust out.

~ Colonel Sanders

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

~ Jeanne Calment

It is better to rust out than wear out.

~ Edwin Markham