Declining Quotes
104 quotes by 98 authors
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You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity.…
— Sarah Caudwell
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The love of God is like himself – equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves – unequal, increasing, waning,…
— John Owen
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A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.
— George Eliot
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
— Pythagoras
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among…
— Seneca the Younger
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I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the…
— Matt Ridley
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Certain media-related developments in the country are raising questions regarding its objectivity and credibility. Paid news and the declining roles of the editors and their…
— Mohammad Hamid Ansari
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Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
— Rem Koolhaas
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When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby…
— Adam Davidson
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In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
— Noam Chomsky
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From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring…
— Noam Chomsky
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Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when…
— Paul Hawken
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Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an…
— Susan Glaspell
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Avarice is the vice of declining years.
— George Bancroft
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Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have…
— Richard Lugar
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A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
— John McCarthy
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And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining…
— Antonio Perez
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Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
— Bruce Jackson
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I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.
— Christopher Gadsden
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