Decline Quotes

Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose.

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a very major role in producing the Great Depression.

Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.

There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.

Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.

I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.