Decline Quotes

Who does not grow, declines.

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.

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

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

A civilization is always judged in its decline.

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.

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

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.

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

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

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?

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

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

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

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

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.

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.

I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.

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

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.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

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

I was never a believer in decline.