Decline Quotes - Page 3

I was never a believer in decline.

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.

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

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

Money never declines. Money just moves.

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

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

I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

The success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity.

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

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.

I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.

Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

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

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

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

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

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

I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money, and equally of no sharp decline in the stock of money that was not accompanied by a severe depression.

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.

I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.

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

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