I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of… — Quentin Crisp 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
I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I'm not running to manage the decline of this great country. I'm running to make real changes in D.C. — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among… — David Augsburger Copy Share Image
If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
As homeowners see the value of their homes decline, they become more likely to delay purchases of the big items - like… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov 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
When we see the human race, we must see before all else environment and food. Historians write about social change without taking… — Michio Kushi 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
If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts. — Martial Copy Share Image
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things. — Edward Cocker Copy Share Image
I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle 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
“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
