Decline Quotes

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles.

The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might.

As long as we decline to allow sick uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality.

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.

And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

Of course I want people to show up to the concerts and I am sure for that to decline would be a difficult thing.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.

We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.

If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground

We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.

Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.

We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline.

I think that the world is in a very serious decline - very, very serious.

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

Look the, the American worker has been losing - for decades now. We've seen manufacturing in decline here in the industrial Midwest.

Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat.

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

The US reasserted control over Nicaragua in 1990. Since then, the country has experienced a steep decline. It's now the second poorest country in the hemisphere.

The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines.

The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist.

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream. Instead, turn it around.

If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.

Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.

The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.

When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to be aware of that.

Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.