Waned Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding… — Tony Campolo
Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with… — Tacitus
The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or… — Richard E. Pattis
What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on… — Jennifer Chiaverini
The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me. — Diablo Cody
There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes… — Edwin Arnold
As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the… — Charles Krauthammer
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. — Evelyn Waugh
Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves.' It was not… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from… — Henry James
George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature,… — Mark McKinnon
With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from… — John Boyle O'Reilly
During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell… — Ben Shapiro
My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs… — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in… — Bob Graham
Belief and non-belief has waxed and waned for centuries. This time atheism is here to stay. — Kevin Smith

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