Quotes about Rotten

Paul's explanation for why the gospel, the unveiling of God's justice and salvation, is urgently required is that the tree is rotten to the core, and might come crashing down at any minute.

I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?

Down there among the roots where the flowers decayed, gusts of dead smells were wafted; drops formed on the bloated sides of swollen things. The skin of rotten fruit broke, and matter oozed too thick to run.

Beneath the quilt she is no more than a bundle of rotten sticks

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

I'm sick with life, I'm rotten with health.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

They're a rotten lot, I shouted, across the lawn. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

That this world's general sickness doth not lie In any humour, or one certain part; But as thou sawest it rotten at the heart, Thou seest a hectic fever hath got hold Of the whole substance, not to be controlled, And that thou hast but one way, not to admit The world's infection, to be none of it.

Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of silly, rotten earth, can drive me thither (588)?