Life Declined Quotes

#1. Young, middle-aged, elderly, old, dead: this was how life conjugated. (No, life was a noun, so this is how life declined. Yes, that was better in any case, life declined.

Julian Barnes

#2. I was convinced that she was about to tell me my card was declined, and assumed Derek wanting to talk later meant he'd soon be telling me our life was declined. Everything, everyone had reached their limits with me.

Joshua Mohr

#3. She demanded, "Give up your life of idolatry and become a doctor."
I declined. "I have my geraniums to look after.

Nick Bantock

#4. Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization.

George Soros

#5. I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.

Timothy Simons

#6. Levelling my stare at him I drop a hint like a penny into a well, You mentioned you were tied up. Win, you should have reserved that privilege for me.

Poppet

#7. One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.

Julius Wellhausen

#8. The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments.

Gary Shteyngart

#9. You get exactly what you are FEELING.

Rhonda Byrne

#10. Heaven is not made for the slothful.

Philip Neri

#11. No doubt, our love persisted, but in practice it served nothing; it was an inert mass within us, sterile as crime of a life sentence. It had declined on a patience that led nowhere, a dogged expectation.

Albert Camus

#12. A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

Walter Kirn