Decline Quotes
474 quotes by 406 authors
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without…
— Mary Astell
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've…
— Rowan Atkinson
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What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise…
— Michele Bachmann
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I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
— Scott Adams
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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and…
— Ben Bernanke
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of…
— Daniel Boone
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
— Luis Bunuel
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It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's…
— Graydon Carter
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
— Adam Ant
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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of…
— Harry Kroto
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It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life…
— Oswald Chambers
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If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth…
— James C. Collins
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
— Ezra Pound
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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