Decline Quotes · Page 7

The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality.

— Haruki Murakami

Housing is a relatively small sector of the economy, and its decline should be self-correcting.

— Janet Yellen

I'm not running to manage the decline of this great country. I'm running to make real changes in D.C.

— Bobby Jindal

“The gentle downward slope gets steeper and imperceptibly becomes an abyss.”

— Tomas Tranströmer

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

— Harold Bloom

“Pain is a breach in the walls of decline and stagnation.”

— Bryant McGill

As you decline in years, you decline in the marketplace.

— Pernell Roberts

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

— Ray Dalio

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the…

— Aristotle

On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually…

— R. J. Reynolds

I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was…

— Anonymous

If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the…

— Glenn Kelman

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in…

— Niall Ferguson

You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a…

— Ron Fournier

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

— Moshe Dayan

Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted…

— Starhawk

People who know the economy is rigged in favor of big money, people who know that our middle class continues to decline…

— Bernie Sanders

It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars…

— Walter Raleigh

For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can…

— Mark Steyn

As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the…

— Darell Hammond

For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20…

— Anonymous

...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in…

— Dennis Prager

There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating.…

— Robin Cook

...how little our side of the industry did to move its business to the more ethical firms and to make a fuss…

— Jeremy Grantham

The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.…

— Gao Xingjian

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the…

— Wallace Stegner

We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with…

— Thomas Carlyle

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“We have seen, then, that certain socioeconomic changes, notably the decline of the middle class and the rising power of monopolistic capital,…

— Erich Fromm

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the…

— Carl Sagan

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

— Diana Palmer

Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.

— Laini Taylor

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

— John Ruskin

I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.

— SonReal

The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose.

— Edwin Louis Cole

…shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

— Pliny the Elder

Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

— Neil Diamond

“Growth in the number of humans is associated with decline in humanity.”

— Meeta Ahluwalia