If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate. — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol. — Howard Baker Copy Share Image
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline...… — Frank Partnoy Copy Share Image
When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
Even the strongest personality will regress and eventually may disintegrate if there is no incentive (other than threat of punishment) for the… — Joe Whitney Copy Share Image
Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll.… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
“But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, which is… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication?… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
It was an all-white church. It was starting to decline. They had to hire a new pastor, and they hired him. But… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I don't want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally decline in… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high… — Erick Erickson Copy Share Image
The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
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