Decline Quotes

474 Decline quotes by 395 unique authors

Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they… — Samuel Garth
So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be… — Joseph Barbera
I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I… — Orson Welles
[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be shut up and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a… — William Makepeace Thackeray
You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If… — Irving Kahn
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor… — Eric Hoffer
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very… — Carl Sagan
I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race. — Winston Churchill
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the… — Bernard Baruch
You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous… — Ron Fournier
The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same… — Nikki Giovanni
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose. — Edwin Louis Cole
As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to… — Gail Collins
There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of… — Andy Grove
In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your… — Sloane Crosley
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline. — Ray Dalio
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice. — Moshe Dayan
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable. — Brian Eno

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