Decline Quotes

474 Decline quotes by 395 unique authors

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting… — Wallace Stegner
Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me… — Henry Rollins
A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to… — Nick Harkaway
Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat. — Nalini Singh
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, CortÃ©s'll lay… — David Mitchell
The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often… — Michel Houellebecq
What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When we need it most, That sends us… — Charles Wright
The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the… — Mark Steyn
I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a… — Walter Isaacson
Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people.… — David Foster Wallace
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book.… — Susan Cain
Because thereâ€™s a clock attached to every beautiful woman. From the second she comes into her own, she begins to decline, because she begins to… — Paul Rudnick
I have very few rules in life, but one of them is to never decline an adventure. The others are: to avoid becoming romantically entangled… — Cassandra Clare
Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present. — Laini Taylor
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of… — Louis L'Amour
Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines. — Dag Hammarskjold
In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies… — Chauncey Wright
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. — Thomas B. Macaulay
If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve. — William Tecumseh Sherman
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline. — John Ruskin

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