Decline Quotes

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

There is a general decline of taste for classical dance,ce, which is neglected and this must be developed from the grassroots. There is so much of razzle-dazzle... that classical dance suffers.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

I was never a believer in decline.

The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization.

The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.

So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.

Every fair from fair sometime declines

There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment.

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

I decline to go fox hunting.

Money never declines. Money just moves.

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

I think the media and the candidates have got to talk about why the middle class is in decline and why we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality.

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

I'm not running to manage the decline of this great country. I'm running to make real changes in D.C.

So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.

Every couple years when Mr. [Hugh] Hefner would call, I would very graciously decline, because my mom would kill me, and I thought it was more mysterious keeping my clothes on.

The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

I think that if anyone bothered to take a survey, they would find a sharp decline in atheism during the winters in Cleveland, Ohio.

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

Be hald, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are to decline your nectared wine, But all you must drink life's gall.

There is something more profound than just real estate because the decline of retail is social. People don't go in small stores - that is a change that is happening in the consumer culture.