Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline. — R. J. Reynolds Copy Share Image
It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that if anyone bothered to take a survey, they would find a sharp decline in atheism during the winters in… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody,… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
The West has institutions that can punish the misconduct of individuals. What drove Rwanda and Africa into decline was the fact that… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The decline of institutional Christianity over the last 40 or 50 years has empowered a side of American religion that has always… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Transnational corporate networks, and their resulting spatial patterns, are always in a continuous state of flux. At any one time, some parts… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
One reason that we eat processed foods is the decline of home economics. Restarting home economics classes is one of the key… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. — Stanley Unwin Copy Share Image
Poverty persists, essentially, because the people at the bottom - the bottom quarter and also the bottom half - see the gains… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures. — Ernst Engel Copy Share Image
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The global supply of oil is going to decline because we've used up a good deal of the easy-to-get oil. We're going… — Michael Klare Copy Share Image
One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance… — Irshad Manji Copy Share Image
“If there is some divine plan that requires my survival and the deaths of all those children in day care, I respectfully… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions. — Lakshmi Mittal Copy Share Image
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy.… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night. — Charlotte Turner Smith Copy Share Image
I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
We start to decline as humans and, particularly, as athletes right around 25 years old. If you're real lucky, you might push… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
“We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it… — Eric Samuel Timm Copy Share Image
