Decline Quotes

474 quotes by 406 authors

Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a… — Lester R. Brown
The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it… — Lester R. Brown
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 as I did.… — Hilaire Belloc
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect… — Friedrich Nietzsche
My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude. — Jane Fonda
Weve been taught that aging means decline of the mind and body , but that doesnt have to be the case. With TIMELESS YOU, I… — Deepak Chopra
Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case of the military-industrial… — Bill Maher
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is:… — Janice Rogers Brown
The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled… — Joseph Conrad
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,… — Eric Hoffer
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. — Harold Bloom
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline. — Edward Abbey
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports… — V.S. Naipaul
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to… — Philip Roth
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him… — William Graham Sumner
Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice… — Clarence Thomas
If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good… — Luis Bunuel
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies — Patricia Highsmith
Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot… — Richard Baxter
I decline to accept the end of man. — William Faulkner

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