The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.
Viewing that complex relationship one-sidedly from the aspect of manufacturing and the impact of Chinese imports on the United States makes sense from the point of view of the Rust Belt of the United States. It may even make sense as a political strategy for a candidate running for office.
Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.
Solitude may rust your words.
The Rust Belt has suffered a lot because of trade deals.
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.
Worry. . . is rust upon the blade.
Misty Sendaria," Silk said ironically. "Sometimes I'm amazed that the entire kingdom doesn't rust shut.
Better to wear out than rust out.
This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt, but as a result America is in the calamity.
Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.
The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.
I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.
If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
