Quotes About Dwindling

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

All things, to all things perfectly indifferent, perfectly work together in discord for a Good beyond good, for a Being more timeless in transience, more eternal in its dwindling than God there in heaven.

there's a significant difference between granting exemptions to a finite, dwindling group of employers during a transition period and granting exemptions to any employer who might ever raise a religiously framed objection, in perpetuity. A

I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses - which I will do anyway.

By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'.

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?

humans were still just a bunch of bipedal apes, divided into arbitrary tribes that were constantly at war over their ruined planet's dwindling natural resources.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Rationing still had an iron grip on postwar Britain. The global conflict had drained every last penny out of the dwindling empire.

But, nevertheless, it is anything but agreeable to be haunted by a suspicion that one's intellect is dwindling away, or exhaling, without your consciousness, like ether out of a phial: so that, at every glance, you find a smaller and less volatile residuum.

every day represents more and more subtracted from less and less

Even if you as trader making profit everyday in stock market, yet your bank account will not show rise in your balance money and rather it will keep on dwindling. Wondering why ? Because your stock broker is stealing by manipulating your account statement

You're thinking of the Old Ones of the old times," said Haakon, "before they dwindled. They were dwindling in my day–those who'd not departed altogether. I see they've brought themselves lower still." "From gods to elves, from elves to fairies, from fairies to pixies and goblins and brownies," said Tom. "And in the end to an even lower thing–behavioral scientists.

How do you describe emptiness? Is it the air inside a bubble, the darkness in a pocket, snow? I think, yes, I was six when or seven when I first felt it, the dwindling that is depression.

He had a goatee that was maybe growing into something that was more than a goatee, which made him look like an angry barista at an indie coffee shop whose dreams of becoming a successful screenwriter were dwindling by the hour.