Quotes About Decline

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.

If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.

As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?

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

Despite declining catches, New England fishermen continue to receive state and federal tax incentives that encourage them in some cases all but compel them to acquire bigger boats and to harvest the seas more intensively. Today the fishermen of Massachusetts are reduced to fishing the hideous hagfish, for which there is a slight market in the Far East, but even their numbers are now falling.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.

Also, if one of the indexes is down for the day on volume larger than the prior day's volume, it should decline more than 0.2% for this to be counted as a distribution day. After

Orosius was a disciple of Saint Augustine. It was the purpose of the seven books to provide a defense of Christianity against the common pagan charge that Christianity accelerated, if it did not cause, the decline of the Roman Empire. Orosius met this dubious challenge by reversing its polarity. If things were in the fifth century bad, he argued, once they were worse.

Another historian, Molly Greene, wearily describes the decline thesis as a meat-grinder, which converts all the facts into the homogenised elements of a single story rather than the distinct indicators of many different stories.

In the 1990s, global military expenditures declined by perhaps 40 percent, and stocks of weapons of all kinds fell.

When the Church loses the Word of God it loses the very means by which God does his work. In its absence, therefore, a script is being written, however unwittingly, for the Church's undoing, not in one cataclysmic moment, but in a slow, inexorable slide made up of piece by tiny piece of daily dereliction.

Depuis quand était-ce ainsi? Il est difficile de dater le début d'un déclin d'amour. C'est progressif, insidieux, l'aisance surnoise des agonies.

the Left's current inability to formulate a critique of bureaucracy that actually speaks to its erstwhile constituents is synonymous with the decline of the Left itself. Without such a critique, radical thought loses its vital center—it collapses into a fragmented scatter of protests and demands.

Elves are extremely long-lived -- the passing years are but a blink of an eye to them. What also sets them apart from us is the very narrow window during which they can procreate, and, as a natural consequence, their very low fertility. The Aen Seidhe believe this to be the main reason for their decline. As one of my elven friends put it, "Even though we fought like wolves, we lost to a race which fucks like rabbits.

It was about how empires try to save themselves in their declining years." "How timely," said Stone. "And how did the Ottomans try to save themselves, if I may ask?" "By keeping their subjects at each other's throats. The Ottomans were masters at sowing dissension. It was one of the few things they were good at, actually.

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.

The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.