Decline famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
-- Adam Ant -
I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
-- Alastair Campbell -
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.
-- Alfred Wegener -
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
-- Anais Nin -
Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.
-- Colin Farrell -
Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
-- Dan Buettner -
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
-- Eberhard Weber -
The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.
-- Irving Fisher -
Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
-- Jane Byrne -
While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.
-- Jasmine Guinness -
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.
-- John Abizaid -
It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.
-- John Prescott -
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
-- John Ruskin -
I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.
-- Josiah Warren -
Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.
-- Laini Taylor -
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 -
We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.
-- Max De Pree -
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.
-- Meg Rosoff -
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline
-- Mikhail Botvinnik -
This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.
-- Murray Walker -
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies
-- Patricia Highsmith -
The standard of living of the average American has to decline.
-- Paul Volcker -
Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.
-- Penelope Spheeris -
Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.
-- Penelope Spheeris -
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
-- Philip Roth -
It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.
-- Pierre Charron -
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
-- Pierre de Coubertin -
Money never declines. Money just moves.
-- Richard M. Kovacevich -
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
-- Scott Adams -
Apples taste sweetest when they're going.
-- Seneca the Younger -
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
-- Steve Pavlina -
Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.
-- Steven Morrissey -
The success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity.
-- W. R. Thompson -
We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.
-- Allen W. Wood -
The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist.
-- Paul Sears -
Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.
-- Robert Payne -
It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.
-- Robert Payne -
I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.
-- SonReal -
A civilization is always judged in its decline.
-- Melvin B. Tolson -
I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.
-- Colin Wilson -
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.
-- Shirley Geok-lin Lim -
The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.
-- Howard Baker -
Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.
-- J. J. Watt -
These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.
-- John Scott
