The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Overall, it seems that we have to accept that Western civilization will decline. It is, essentially, inevitable.” — Bruce Charlton Copy Share Image
I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they… — Cyril Clarke Copy Share Image
The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows… — Cristina Saralegui Copy Share Image
The price decline is a result of having to pay debts. That drains income from the circular flow between production and consumption… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Without extended, concentrated prayer, the ministry of the Word withers. And when the ministry of the Word declines, faith (Rom. 10:17; Gal.… — John Piper 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
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
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of… — Susan Cain 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
It happens every once in awhile at the federal level when the solicitor general, on behalf of the U.S., will confess error… — Ted Olson 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
Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the… — Sjon Copy Share Image
[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“...both wealth and concord decline as possessions become pursued and honored. And virtue perishes with them as well.” — Plato Copy Share Image
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as… — Mark Mobius Copy Share Image
The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at… — Narciso Rodriguez Copy Share Image
We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial… — Alfred Wegener Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher - a woman I greatly admire - once said that she was not content to manage the decline of a… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Weve been taught that aging means decline of the mind and body , but that doesnt have to be the case. With… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty… — Paul Cook Copy Share Image
I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual… — Jon Appleton Copy Share Image