Wane Quotes

30 quotes by 29 authors

Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our… — Daisaku Ikeda
At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be,… — William Tecumseh Sherman
I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is going to happen… — Phillip Sandifer
Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into the… — G. Edward Griffin
Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as… — Zygmunt Bauman
I'd...bet enthusiasm for 'ethnic cleansing' will wane if only sticks and rocks are available for the warring parties. — Bill Hicks
Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will… — W G Sebald
Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn… — Charles Addams
But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes. — Hermann Hesse
I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog-… — Aeschylus
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and… — Anthony Doerr
Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit… — Chuck Palahniuk
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to… — Peter York
It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane. — Alain de Botton
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane. — Gary Hamel
Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't… — Kirk Hammett
There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive… — Jeffrey Kluger
The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes. — James Surowiecki
As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?... There'll likely be a point of diminishing returns,… — Dean Karnazes
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. — Ezra Pound

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