Top 209 Declining Quotes & Sayings

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

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

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

In the Year 2000 due to the declining number of champions in the world, Wheaties will change its slogan to 'Breakfast of Sexual Deviants.

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church which relies for its spiritual strength and growth entirely upon seasons of "revival," will very soon have no genuine revivals to rely on. Our holy God will not conform His blessings to man's moods and moral caprice. If a church is declining, it may require a "revival" to restore it; but what need was there of its declining?

Our destiny is as a global beacon of free trade and we cannot deliver that while bound to the declining E.U. and its protectionist Customs Union.

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

Some people thought that I was crazy for declining a lot of offers while I was filming 'SKTKS,' but I have waited patiently because I knew I had a winning hand.

People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.

Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining.

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?

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage.

It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

People don't buy CDs so much anymore because it's easy to download everything. So, while the record industry is declining, the music is heard a lot more than before.

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

Nafta has been responsible for a race to the bottom in standards across North America, with working conditions declining along with wages.

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

If you want to fight against a declining trend, you've got to have a much bigger bazooka.

There are several silver linings on the horizon. The current account deficits in Spain and Portugal are declining because they have become more competitive and they're exporting more.

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime.

California's economy is declining so rapidly that candidates are asking 'Are you better off now then you were four minutes ago?'

Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining.

From a productivity standpoint, you're supposed to reduce headcount on par with declining revenue. If you believe the environment isn't going to improve, you should take a bigger cut to get in front of the problems.

We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

A top geneticist at Stanford says human intelligence is declining. You know what that means? We are seeing Congress at its smartest and most effective right now.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Declining welfare rolls and increasing work participation rates demonstrate that Missouri is moving people away from welfare dependency and into jobs.

Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

We have a reversal of a longstanding trend, from rising inequality across nations and constant or declining inequality within nations, to declining inequality across nations and rising inequality within them.

The American dream itself is declining.

My declining allure is a source of great sadness to me.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

During Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration, Michigan has experienced job losses, declining personal incomes, diminishing home values, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation.

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.

After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

I don't even read 'the Sun' and it's my job to read everything that's politically important. I think that's a symbol of the declining power of the mainstream media.

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.

Believing in the sanctity of life also shouldn't expose anyone to discrimination or penalties for declining to support abortion.

I want fewer interruptions in my day. I have eliminated a lot of things from my life. I'm on a declining scale of wanting things.