156 Decline Quotes for You to Enjoy

I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins. Gary Shteyngart

Love Natural First Inevitable Progression Our Our Lives Born Feisty Couple Because Years Begins Decline Natural Progression Then Really Lives Things

If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline. Glenn Kelman

Music Creative Quality Will Control Way Distribution Give Journalism Goods Efforts Authors Literature Decline Film

It's an irony that with the physical decline of age comes more mental wellbeing. It's life's cruel trick. You've settled down as a person, you feel happier with who you are, and then you get a massive swollen prostate and have to go for a test every two weeks. It's life's way of saying the struggle isn't over. Greg Davies

Life Saying You Struggle Age Down Every Settled Way Trick Physical Mental More Weeks Cruel Feel Over Prostate Massive Wellbeing Test Go Person Get Irony Happier Decline Then Who Swollen Two Two Weeks

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. Hans Urs von Balthasar

First Fall Response Must Only Finite Attempt Road Return Been Intelligible Salvation Infinite Sensible Decline

In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for businesses. Hector Ruiz

Humble Device Known Opinion Continuous Being Decline Businesses Utility Humble Opinion

What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less and less people are going to the polls in most advanced democracies. Ivan Krastev

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises. Ivan Krastev

Political Society Crises Perceive Russians Economic Clearly Major Global Shattered Ideological America American Being Influence Irreversible Decline American Society

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France. Jacques Delors

Myself France Cannot Decline Europe Resign

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. James Buchan

If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them. James D. Watson

Character Will Superior Young Sense Assume Honestly Ways Promise Tells Would Find Give Seizing Could Knew Couples How Scientists Greatly Improve Offspring Human Common Stopping Common Sense Happily Public Capabilities Them Decline Us Should Why

The decline of practical skills, some of them very day-to-day, among a generation of British men is very worrying. They can't put up a shelf, wire a plug, countersink a screw, iron a shirt. They believe it's endearing and cute to be useless, whereas I think it's boring, and everyone's getting sick of it. James May

Generation Men Cute Believe Think Sick Everyone Worrying Plug Boring Some Wire Put Day-To-Day Practical Shelf Up Very Shirt Iron Endearing Getting Whereas Screw Them Decline Skills Useless Among British

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. James Thurber

Grace Language Value Interviews Lies Give Give And Take Fact Take Answers Opposition Perpetuate Oral Little Decline English English Language Helps Expression

Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole. Jane Leavy

Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the aging of the baby boom generation. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession. Janet Yellen

Housing is a relatively small sector of the economy, and its decline should be self-correcting. Janet Yellen

Relatively Sector Small Economy Housing Decline Should

I would be uncomfortable raising the federal funds rate if readings on wage growth, core consumer prices, and other indicators of underlying inflation pressures were to weaken, if market-based measures of inflation compensation were to fall appreciably further, or if survey-based measures were to begin to decline noticeably. Janet Yellen

Inflation Fall Other Further Pressures Weaken Would Would-Be Rate Uncomfortable Federal Prices Consumer Underlying Readings Wage Were Begin Decline Measures Growth Compensation Funds Raising Core

There's been an unquestionable decline in American culture. The education system is thin on the ground. People don't read as deeply and at length as they used to. And the media has been scattered into so many cable channels. Jay Parini

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

Love Alone Together Recognize Dawn Feel Decline

Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption. Jill Lepore

God Time History Corruption Grace Fall Past Worse Ruled Favor Supernatural Lay Tend Divine Involve Loss Providence Hand Behind Decline Sparrow Used Theories Special Each Present

You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens. Jinder Mahal

You Become Complacent Lazy Just Happens Decline Then

Mortgage insurance stocks remained depressed through the end of 2012 amid lingering uncertainty as to whether they had sufficient capital to absorb losses on delinquent loans originated before the crisis. However, as house prices began to recover, losses started to decline. John Paulson

Before Crisis Uncertainty Recover Remained Through Delinquent Prices Had Absorb Mortgage House Insurance However Losses Lingering Began End Stocks Whether Depressed Decline Capital Originated Sufficient Started Loans

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline. John Podhoretz

Better Light Slow Promise Followed Only Better Things Come Message End End Of The Tunnel Stagnation Tunnel Republican Decline Things Present

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration. John Prescott

Administration Direction Previous Moving Decline Right Right Direction

If you don't have the time or desire to do whatever is being asked of you, say, 'no.' Even if you want to bake those cookies for your kid's fundraiser or take on a new freelancing gig, sometimes you just have to politely decline until you do have the extra time. The other party may be disappointed, but it's not the end of the world. John Rampton

Time You World Sometimes Party Whatever Extra Other Say Kid Those Gig Take Disappointed New Bake Until Politely End End Of The World May Just Being Want Decline Asked Your Cookies Even Desire

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