Decline Quotes

474 Decline quotes by 395 unique authors

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast. — Peter Drucker
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair. — Terence McKenna
Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want. — Alan Sugar
When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make… — George Carlin
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
Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude toward and treatment… — Wentworth Miller
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run… — Dalai Lama
To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable… — Ludwig von Mises
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been… — Douglas MacArthur
The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was… — Milton Friedman
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like… — Hugh Miller
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago), and… — Matthew Simmons
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. — Pierre de Coubertin
When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins. — Theodore Martin
These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of… — Mortimer Zuckerman
One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science. — Gino Severini
Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles. — Roger Babson
I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards)… — Phil Jones
If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. — Unknown Author
The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a… — Leon Trotsky
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline — Mikhail Botvinnik

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