Quotes About Decline

I had a salad. If I were to say that today's tomatoes were an index of the decline of Western man I should be thought a crank but nations do not, I think, ascend on such tomatoes.

Faith-based religion must suffer the same slide into obsolescence

Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution.

The jobs left, and the factories closed... the wealth, strength and confidence of America has disappeared over the horizon.

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

Aerobic capacity (VO2max) declines. •?Maximal heart rate is reduced. •?The volume of blood pumped with each heartbeat decreases. •?Muscle fibers are lost, resulting in decreased muscle mass and less strength. •?Aerobic enzymes in the muscles become less effective and abundant. •?Blood volume is reduced.

Continuing to train with high intensity results in roughly half as much decline as training with long, slow distance only.

The process of ascent and decline of cities is both rooted in history and changed by it. Successful urban areas today must still resonate with the ancient fundamentals—places sacred, safe, and busy. This was true five thousand years ago, when cities represented a tiny portion of humanity, and in this century, the first in which the majority live in cities.

When civilisation declined, it was the women who always suffered most.

It's always tempting to mistake your personal decline for the decline of the human species

He had a sense that the deterioration he was experiencing in his focus was happening to a lot of the people around him – but he also knew that at many points in history, people have thought they were experiencing some kind of disastrous social decline, when in fact, they were merely ageing. It's always tempting to confuse your personal decline for the decline of the human species.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

The American empire is hovering between life and death.

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

There is a crisis in American leadership in the middle of the twentieth century that is partly due, I think, to the declining authority of an establishment which is now based on an increasingly castelike White-Anglo Saxon-Protestant (WASP) upper class.

The desecration of this monument is symbolic of the current state of the Church in Argentina and the decline it has endured since the era of Catholic self-confidence when it was built.

I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.

The central conclusion is that the American church is dying due to lack of strong spiritual leadership. In this time of unprecedented opportunity and plentiful resources, the church is actually losing influence. The primary reason is the lack of leadership. Nothing is more important than leadership."

In his book Vision America, Aubrey Malphurs asserted that much of the perceived church growth in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s was actually due primarily to the redistribution of believers, not genuine church growth. He stated, "The problems of the church in the 1980s carry over into the 1990s. The church as a whole continues to experience decline and the unchurched increase."5

The afternoon wore away.

Shine, perishing republic.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.