We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune… — Saadi Copy Share Image
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
I am apoplectic that people no longer expect progress because for so long they have worn the clothes of decline. — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Talking about sexual morality, I wouldn't agree that it's declining, but it's certainly changing. Young and old, we are very much in… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private… — King Hussein I 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
Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to… — Oswald Mosley 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
The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any… — Carl Jung 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
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
Obviously it's true that as you go up the ranks, the number of women starts to decline. Whether that's because of 'self-deselection'… — Marianne Lake Copy Share Image
Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a… — Tom Wopat Copy Share Image
The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The easier sex gets, the less intimate every sexual act gets. In the Victorian period, a kiss was like a f -… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e.… — Phil Jones Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel… — Samuel Garth Copy Share Image
It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the… — William Galston Copy Share Image
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the… — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it… — Robert Lane Greene 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/i/860/joseph-stiglitz-1351_america_world-war-ii-was-really-unusual-because_156000.jpg)
![“I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.” quote by Phil Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d11/phil-jones-4350_climate_i-ve-just-completed-mike-s-mann-nature-t_1301781.png)
![“[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.” quote by Abby May Alcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a0/abby-may-alcott-62027_busy_on-her-recently-widowed-father-s-much-yo_2360762.jpg)
