Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices. — Christopher Eccleston Copy Share Image
Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy. — Franz Grillparzer 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
Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I am not satisfied that Darwin proved his point or that his influence in scientific and public thinking has been beneficial ...… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to… — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century,… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen. — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The West has institutions that can punish the misconduct of individuals. What drove Rwanda and Africa into decline was the fact that… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The decline of institutional Christianity over the last 40 or 50 years has empowered a side of American religion that has always… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world… — Anonymous 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
I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the… — Michel Houellebecq 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
There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
A decline in supervision is not the entire story. Even in the fifties there were undersupervised children . . . who nevertheless… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Concerning our possibilities on the international financial markets, the sanctions are severely harming Russia. But the biggest harm is currently caused by… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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