A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol. — Howard Baker Copy Share Image
You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
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
The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together. — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I have very few rules in life, but one of them is to never decline an adventure. The others are: to avoid… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Customers don't always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more… — Martin Feldstein 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
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
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
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
I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less… — Enric Sala Copy Share Image
Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of… — Edward Gibbon 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
![“World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get securely out of this decline. This time, the war [in Iraq] is bad for the economy in both the short and long run. We could have spent trillions in research or education…” quote by Joseph Stiglitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/860/joseph-stiglitz-1351_america_world-war-ii-was-really-unusual-because_156000.jpg)
