One thing I take great pride in is that my case was the one that started the decline of the Mafia. — Joseph D. Pistone Copy Share Image
Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat. — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose. — Walter Savage Landor 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 actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying. — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
I think that the world is in a very serious decline - very, very serious. — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
"No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria,… — Archie Kalokerinos Copy Share Image
The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very… — Henri de Lubac Copy Share Image
If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficult, the most crowded... I'm a top… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“The couple's physical decline became increasingly obvious with each passing hour. The old man, immobile in bed; Mrs. Adler, all alone, watching… — Armando Lucas Correa Copy Share Image
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I wouldn't necessarily assume that because Capricornia has traditionally been a Labor seat, that it'll go back to the Labor Party this… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.… — Janice Rogers Brown Copy Share Image
The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace.… — Howard Wolpe Copy Share Image
Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline. — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate. — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
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