Decline Quotes

474 Decline quotes by 395 unique authors

Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today… — Jonathan Sacks
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad?… — George Saunders
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions,… — George Santayana
Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked. — Marilyn vos Savant
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them. — Pete Seeger
I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the… — Pete Seeger
Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if… — Nate Silver
Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make… — Simon Sinek
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take… — James Thurber
This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well. — Murray Walker
Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be… — Andrew Weil
I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and… — Florence Welch
It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist. — Tom Wopat
Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is… — Viswanathan Anand
There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and… — John Irving
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries. — Anais Nin

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