Quotes of: Declined Keyword

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

Edwin Louis Cole

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

Bruce Jackson

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Dag Hammarskjold

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

Warren De la Rue

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

Pierre de Coubertin

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

Mark Rydell

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

Patricia Highsmith

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Oscar Wilde

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

Josiah Warren

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

Saskya Pandita

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Will Rogers

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.

Leslie Moonves

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

Jasmine Guinness

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Aristotle

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

Al-Waleed bin Talal

I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.

Winston S. Churchill

For every 100 women who earn a bachelors degree, 75 men do so. For every 100 American women who earn a Masters degree, 66 American men do so. For every 100 females, ages 20 to 24, who commit suicide, 624 males do so. For every 100 women, ages 18 to 2...

From Family Collapse to America's Decline: The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation

For many, what they see on television becomes more true than what they see with their eyes in the external world. But this is not so, for one must never forget that every television and has been edited. The viewer does not see the event. He sees in e...

How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

Graydon Carter

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

Ian Mckellen

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

Jean de la Bruyere