Decline Quotes

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

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

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

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

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

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

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

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

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

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.

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.

These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

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

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.

Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.