Quotes About Decline

Sensitivity to dopamine also declines because dopamine receptors, anticipating high levels, have down-regulated. This may explain Goethe's famous remark, 'Nothing is harder to bear than a succession of fair days.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

coral cover in the Caribbean has in recent decades declined by close to eighty percent.

Asian elephants have declined by fifty percent over the last three generations.

it has since been reduced to around five thousand animals.

living in four parks in the state of Assam. A hundred years ago, in Africa, the population of black rhinos approached a million; it has since been reduced to around five thousand animals.

number of chimpanzees in the wild has dropped to perhaps half of what it was fifty years ago

Then the frogs around El Valle started to disappear.

Lowland gorillas have declined even faster;

it's estimated the population has shrunk by sixty percent just in the last two decades.

The Nietzschean nihilist could "implant into that which is degenerate and desires to die a longing for the end"—in other words, by planting the idea of decline in society one could actually hasten its demise.11

Greek science on Aristotle's terms, which had already fallen into decrepitude under the late Roman Empire, will take a long hiatus during the Middle Ages.

for Aristotle the world we make for ourselves continually reflects that constant striving toward improvement. In that sense, Aristotle is the first great advocate of progress—and Plato, creator of the vanished utopia Atlantis, the first great theorist of the idea of decline.21

Sus ojos seguían fijos en la luz declinante y en la creciente oscuridad. Esa negrura preternatural que parece decir a la más luminosa y sublime obra de Dios: «Déjame el sitio; acaba ya de brillar».

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

Maybe '13 Assassins' is the mortal agony and death rattle of a Japanese film industry that has abandoned its creative talent.

We felt like we reached a point where MySpace in its original incarnation had peaked in a way.

As a result of the policies of my government, black money in real estate sector has declined substantially, the prices of houses have come down and the dream of a normal middle class family for possessing their own house is being realised.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

È questo che ammiro nella gioventù italiana, il lento scemare delle ambizioni, la consapevolezza che il meglio è di gran lunga alle spalle. Noi americani abbiamo molto da imparare dal loro declino pieno di grazia.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have just begun our gradual descent into the Indianapolis area, a descent similar in many ways to the gradual slide of the United States from a first-class world leader to an aggressive, third-rate debtor nation of overweight slobs, undereducated slob children and aimless elderly people who can't afford to buy medicine.

Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.

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.