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Quotes About Decline

Sensex has come down from 61000-60000 mark to 54000-53000 in just last one month, just image how much money companies would have made with this sharp decline by selling shares. Mind boggling
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Today's negligible rise in stock market does not mean that declining trend seen from 4th April is over, still NIFTY touching 12050 is quite probable in few months
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Tomorrow the India stock market is most likely to open further Rs.5 down of each Rs.100 worth shares and decling trend is likely to continue till June end month. Brokerage houses will continue to prohibit the entry of sell price and play spoilsport as companies have started looting invested money of public in share market
~ Lakshheish M Patel
retrogression)
~ Jack London
People and places know greatness for a while, then decline.
~ James A. Michener
I've come to see institutional decline like a staged disease: harder to detect but easier to cure in the early stages, easier to detect but harder to cure in the later stages. An institution can look strong on the outside but already be sick on the inside
~ James C. Collins
The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies.
~ Paul Cook
Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Those 'Pledge' records did good for me, and they're the foundation that this Killer Mike is built on, but I was judging myself on physical sales and didn't understand that music sales were declining overall.
~ Killer Mike
A jolt is necessary. Europe must reaffirm it values of freedom, solidarity, peace. The EU must be understood and controlled by its citizens. I will do everything to secure profound change rather than decline.
~ Francois Hollande
Unfortunately, chivalry seems to be on the decline, but let's hope that manners can remain important. I, for one, will certainly be an evangelist with it.
~ Alexander Gilkes
When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.
~ Idries Shah
The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
~ Ted Dexter
The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.
~ John Henrik Clarke
Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
~ John Simon
We wanted to preserve as many jobs as possible, so when our sales continued to decline in August 2008, we did about a 5 percent reduction of our global staff. But in order not to cut any more jobs, we froze everybody's pay and put a hiring freeze on.
~ John Mackey
Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.
~ Rush Limbaugh
We tried our damnedest to make it a special entertainment, but I'll admit I'm a contributor to the decline in TV standards.
~ Noel Edmonds
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
~ Plutarch
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
In 1927, Robert Graves published a little book called *Lars Porsena or the Future of Swearing and Improper Language*. He noted a recent decline in the use of foul language by the English, and predicted that this decline would continue indefinitely, until foul language had all but disappeared from the average man's vocabulary. History has not borne him out, to say the least: indeed, I have known economists make more accurate predictions.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
No doubt the decline of religion accounts for the rise in self-obsession and self-importance that is everywhere observable. One of the great advantages of the Christian philosophy was that it managed to reconcile the unique importance of each man with humility. Every man was important in the eyes of God, and in that sense was at home in the universe because the universe was expressly created for beings such as he.
~ Theodore Dalrymple