Declining Quotes

104 quotes by 98 authors

People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their… — Al Franken
The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. They're trying to pay for health care and send… — Al Franken
If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries… — Al Gore
Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments… — Larry Craig
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere… — Erica Jong
Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD… — Mark Kennedy
Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama. — Rush Limbaugh
Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written -… — Viggo Mortensen
Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. — Camille Paglia
We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives. — Camille Paglia
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a… — James Surowiecki
The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession… — James Wolcott
The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night. — E. M. Forster
When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of… — David Sedaris
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage. — Daniel Gilbert
My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres,… — John Donne
A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after… — Philip K. Dick
The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts. — Diana Palmer
That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it… — Jonathan Edwards
Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting. — Tom Robbins

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