Decline Quotes

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

  Eberhard Weber

  Aggravation, Waiting, Audience

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• I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

  Scott Adams

  Aggravation, Hallucinations, Dilbert

  Scott Adams (2012). “Dilbert 2.0: The Dot-com Bubble: 1998 TO 2000”, p.187, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Aggravation, Cynical, Shame

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• But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

  Martin Feldstein

  Aggravation, Dollars, Months

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• I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.

  Phil Jones

  Real, Years, Energy

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• 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.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Appreciation, Aggravation, Political

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• 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.

  Martin Feldstein

  Mean, Years, Months

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

  Paul Virilio

  Fall, Science, Aggravation

  Paul Virilio (2005). “The Information Bomb”, p.2, Verso

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• It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Civilization, Aggravation, Long

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• It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Horse, Hero

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

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Aggravation, Heaven, Ladders

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• The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

  Mary Astell

  Aggravation, Steps, Sin

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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

  Penelope Spheeris

  Aggravation, Found, Wanted

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• The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reading, Literature, Nations

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.109

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• Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Historical, Democracy

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• "No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you... Declining to hear "no" is a signal that someone is either seeking control or refusing to relinquish it.

  Gavin de Becker

  Choices, Abuse, Trying

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Punishment, Abuse, Double Standard

  Uncle Tom's Cabin ch. 20 (1852)

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• 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

  Lying, Expression, Giving

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Aggravation, People

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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

  Pete Seeger

  Aggravation, People, Written

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Aggravation, Able, Embarrassed

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• This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

  Du Fu

  Aggravation, Giving, Support

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• 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.

  Eddie Campbell

  Book, Thinking, Aggravation

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• Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Law, Aggravation

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• 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.

  Dick Schaap

  Art, Aggravation, Hype

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