As soon as people decline my services, I'll put my briefcase under my arm, and I'll be off. — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick. — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
…shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth. — Erich Ludendorff Copy Share Image
The aristocracy is in decline in the City, and the cloth-cap professionals are in the ascent. And we will take over. — Paul Neild Copy Share Image
Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If… — Ronald Reagan 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
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
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
In the United States and other countries, there has been a decline in public and private support of the arts, including dance.… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
If you're a conservation biologist in many fields, you're seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they're chronicling… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was born in Oakland and grew up, probably about five miles from Oakland, in Hayward. And Hayward was OK. Like, Hayward… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have been flooded with postal cards from all over the United States and several parallel universes. Just a quick glance though… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
“Growth in the number of humans is associated with decline in humanity.” — Meeta Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline. — SonReal Copy Share Image
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
When your passion begins to decline, you already start to die. You were born to burn. — Bill Johnson 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
Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful. — Mason Cooley 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
The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline,… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
