Decline Quotes
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Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.
— Laini Taylor
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
— L. Ron Hubbard
In our decline we live in the shadow of giants.
— Ian McEwan
Can you imagine any public company embracing a business model that would lead to the decline in revenue that we experienced from 1986 through 1999?
— Warren Buffett
However, as commercialization of microfinance deepens, the proportion of female clientele of microfinance institutions will decline steadily.
— Godwin Ehigiamusoe
The Church is going to have to recognise that secularisation is not the cause of their decline, it is the result of it.
— Keith Porteous Wood
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
— Sigmund Freud
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
— Saskya Pandita
Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
— Talulah Riley
The biggest threat to American power in the long run is the persistent decline in its middle class standard of living today.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
— Jules Renard
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline
— Mikhail Botvinnik
I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that i imagined my fortune had passed its meridian and must now decline.
— Charlotte Bronte
I decline to go fox hunting.
— Princess Diana
All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles.
— Frederick Lenz
From oriole to crow, note the declineIn music. Crow is realist. But, then,
Oriole, also, may be realist. — Wallace Stevens
Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline.
— R. J. Reynolds
He would die early, since nothing so fair could decline by common degrees in a faded season.
— Tennessee Williams
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
— Terence McKenna
You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline
— Phil Gramm
Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.
— Robert Payne
Old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled
— Joseph Conrad
...the Supreme Court made several liberal decisions in the 1970s, indicating the moral decline of the nation as a whole.
— Kurt Grussendorf
I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.
— Erich Ludendorff
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
— Stephen Bayley
I broke in swiftly. "How kind of you to renew your offer, your Grace. But I am afraid I must decline. Brisbane is the man for me.
— Deanna Raybourn
If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
— Barbara Mertz
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Love on the decline is hard to tell from love on the rise." [From 'The Lady from Lucknow']
— Bharati Mukherjee
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
— Harold Bloom
This dramatic increase in the speed of information and the precipitous decline in critical thinking have been disastrous.
— Bronwen Dickey
It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.
— Ryan Holmes
By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
— Edwin Louis Cole
Many others are struggling to get out from under the pressures associated with the economy's decline.
— Anonymous
It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.
— John Prescott
The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.
— J. B. Bury
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.
— Arnold Toynbee
The Ottoman Empire was in decline, held back from modernization by a conservative Muslim priesthood.
— Ken Follett
If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.
— Mercedes McCambridge
Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.
— Susan Sontag
We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.
— Lakshmi Mittal
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.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Apples taste sweetest when they're going.
— Seneca The Younger
It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.
— Robert Payne
Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.
— Charles Nodier
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
— Ray Dalio
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.— Luis Bunuel
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. — Samuel Johnson
News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.
— Gracia Martore
I'm not running to manage the decline of this great country. I'm running to make real changes.
— Bobby Jindal
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
— Jami Attenberg
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
— Ludwig Von Mises
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
— Alastair Campbell
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
— Edmund Phelps
A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade ... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.
— Nathaniel Branden
The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Cultural decline is not inevitable.
— National Endowment For The Arts
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
— Pierre De Coubertin
Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.
— Ted Turner
Most postmodernists blame the decline of the dracono-bardic tradition on the sudden and soaring popularity of the Beatles.
— E.K. Johnston
General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.
— Michael Marmot
Growth in the number of humans is associated with decline in humanity.
— Meeta Ahluwalia
Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.
— Nick Murray
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
— Jean De La Bruyere
A civilization is always judged in its decline.
— Melvin B. Tolson
Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.
— Roger Babson
I didn't want anyone to notice any decline in my abilities so I took to therapy again with the same spirit.
— Amy Rankin
There's nothing I would do again the same, and if given the opportunity, I would decline the opportunity.
— Steve Toltz
