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Decline Quotes

1.
Who does not grow, declines.
Hillel the Elder

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2.
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

3.
Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
Jane Byrne

4.
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline
Mikhail Botvinnik

5.
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

6.
A civilization is always judged in its decline.
Melvin B. Tolson

7.
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.
Peter Lynch

8.
Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.
Nick Murray

9.
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

10.
The standard of living of the average American has to decline.
Paul Volcker

11.
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

12.
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
Norm Dicks

13.
It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
Benjamin Graham

14.
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
William Graham Sumner

15.
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
Ray Dalio

16.
When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.
Richard Heinberg

17.
Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
Marilyn vos Savant

18.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

19.
Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.
Robert Payne

20.
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
Alastair Campbell

21.
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?
Peter Greenaway

22.
While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.
Jasmine Guinness

23.
I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.
Colin Wilson

24.
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
Friedrich Nietzsche

25.
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

26.
Margaret Thatcher - a woman I greatly admire - once said that she was not content to manage the decline of a great nation. Neither am I. I am prepared to lead the resurgence of a great nation.
Carly Fiorina

27.
This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.
Murray Walker

28.
The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.
Howard Baker

29.
We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.
Marco Rubio

30.
When I look at the work, if it speaks to me, I'll say 'yes' and if the work doesn't resonate with me, I'll politely decline.
Phylicia Rashad

31.
Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.
Penelope Spheeris

32.
Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
Adam Ant

33.
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
John Ruskin

34.
Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.
Penelope Spheeris

35.
My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.
Ludwig von Mises

36.
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
Pete Seeger

37.
The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
Douglas Adams

38.
Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
Dan Buettner

39.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
Brian Eno

40.
I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.
Josiah Warren

41.
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
Eberhard Weber

42.
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

43.
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

44.
I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
Al-Waleed bin Talal

45.
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
Demosthenes

46.
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim

47.
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

48.
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
Anais Nin

49.
Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.
Colin Farrell

50.
I was never a believer in decline.
Max Gallo