Top 100 Quotes About Declined
#1. The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.
Michael Parenti
#2. As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
Ralph Adams Cram
#3. President Obama keeps telling us that he is "creating jobs." But more and more Americans have no jobs. The unemployment rate has declined slightly, but only because many people have stopped looking for jobs. You are only counted as unemployed if you are still looking for a job.
Thomas Sowell
#4. 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
#5. A laconic Texas lawmaker declined to use his considerable influence to intervene in a loud dispute between his colleagues. When asked why not, he said, They're not voting. If they're not voting, they're not passing any laws. If they're not passing any laws, they're not hurting anybody.
Robert A. Caro
#6. F or a decade after the bursting of the debt bubble in 1837, business conditions were depressed in the United States. The number of banks available for financing speculative adventures declined. Then, after another 10 years, public memory faded again.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#7. She'd declined to attend parties and balls, citing her devotion to the Highland hero of her dreams - but really because she'd preferred to stay home with a book.
Tessa Dare
#8. The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush.
Sidney Blumenthal
#9. In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has declined significantly, from approximately 14 million in 1979 to slightly less than eight million in 2010.
Seth Berkley
#10. Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.
James Joyce
#11. Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
Learned Hand
#12. We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.
Shane Leslie
#13. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome ... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).
Robert A. Heinlein
#14. But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
Irene Dunne
#15. A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.
Simon Newcomb
#16. My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
Edmund Phelps
#17. There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.
Edna O'Brien
#18. Adorable. I had never seen grown women attack each other so fluently. No one tossed out adorable at Simone. No one declined Chef's tasting menu. And yet Simone wasn't stunned - she was braced. I realized that they were women who knew dangerous things about each other.
Stephanie Danler
#19. An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
Livy
#20. After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.
Anibal Cavaco Silva
#21. Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers
#23. The audiences certainly have [declined]. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.
Evelyn Waugh
#24. He declined to let us take our air rifles to the Landing (I had already begun to think of shooting Francis)
Harper Lee
#25. Back at the scene of the rollover they had brought in the dogs, who got one snootful of all the guts and gore scattered all over the place and, after a whispered conference, expressed their regrets and respectfully declined to participate.
Carsten Stroud
#26. It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.
Stephanie Mills
#27. She demanded, "Give up your life of idolatry and become a doctor."
I declined. "I have my geraniums to look after.
Nick Bantock
#28. Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign.
Grover Cleveland
#29. In my typical way, I declined to respond, saying that I didn't want anyone to run to a store just because I endorsed a trend. Besides, a trend is good only if it works for you, your wardrobe, and your lifestyle.
Tim Gunn
#30. I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate.
John Green
#31. The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.
Charlie Pierce
#32. As writer pay declined and teacher pay also, we all started hanging out online. You could say online social networks cheapen our friendships or you could say we were cheapened by a plutocratic power grab and this is all we can afford.
Alexander Chee
#33. Mrs. Lindbergh declined all pleas to kiss or embrace her son, explaining that they came from "an undemonstrative Nordic race," which in her case was wholly untrue.
Bill Bryson
#34. If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
Noam Chomsky
#35. I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.'
Annie Potts
#36. Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.
Frank Dane
#37. She climbed on the kitchen table and when he declined to join her she stamped out a pouting solo piece containing equal parts of petulance and release.
Salman Rushdie
#38. For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars.
Alex Berenson
#39. My looks by then had in any case declined to the point where only women would go to bed with me.
Christopher Hitchens
#40. Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.
Steve Israel
#41. Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.
Frank Dane
#42. On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
Arne Jacobsen
#43. He didnt like eggs....or her for that matter. So when she asked him to stay for breakfast, he declined.
Conor Lynch
#44. I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers. I view myself as an independent, critical intellectual, as someone who tries to stimulate thought on the left and the right, to encourage intellectual evolution.
Tariq Ramadan
#45. Regrets came up and asked me if I'd like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn't leave this relationship empty handed.
Steve Toltz
#46. Fuel efficiency is reducing the fund's income per mile driven and the average number of miles driven per person has declined.
Robert Wright
#47. I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
Jack Steinberger
#48. Him & Her are born directly from the ideas behind the Panton Chair. An evolution of the hermaphroditic original, declined into the harmony of the two sexes. They assume sculpted forms like naked models of seduction ... but they feel no shame.
Fabio Novembre
#49. If, in picking a quarrel, each party declined to go more than three-eighths of the way, and if, in making friends, each was ready to go five-eighths of the way - why, there would be more reconciliations than quarrels!
Lewis Carroll
#50. But how is it justice, God? Why do I deserve this?" She waited. God declined to reply. How
Joyce Carol Oates
#51. I trusted providence to prevent a sneeze, refused to worry, declined to dwell on negative possibilities, and I did not sneeze, did not sneeze, still did not sneeze, but then I farted.
Dean Koontz
#52. The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.
Virgil Goode
#53. She had told the truth: she did not like to dance. Men assumed that a spinster wanted for excitement. Dried-up. They made a point of spinning her wildly across the floor. Once she had fallen, and thereafter she'd declined all invitations.
Meredith Duran
#54. Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.
Hermione Lee
#55. One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40 to 1 percent in the last four decades. Concurrently, the amount of rainfall has declined to the point where the country is rapidly becoming a wasteland.
Al Gore
#56. Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#58. Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep my pancreas at peak performance. Use it or lose it is my philosophy.
Janet Evanovich
#59. When Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was before us in 1993, she said that her standard was to give no hints, no forecasts, no previews, and declined to answer dozens of questions.
Orrin Hatch
#60. John Nobody, a Nobody Inc. spokesperson, declined to comment. Or prove his existence or the existence of the company he may or may not represent.
Jarod Kintz
#61. I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
Edward Abbey
#62. Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
Plutarch
#63. There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief.
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke Of Norfolk
#64. As motherhood as a "private enterprise" declines and more mothers rely on the work of lower-paid specialists, the value accorded the work of mothering (not the value of children) has declined for women, making it all the harder for men to take it up.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#65. Unfortunately, the fact is that modern antisemitism grew in proportion as traditional nationalism declined, and reached its climax at the exact moment when the European system of nation-states and its precarious balance of power crashed.
Hannah Arendt
#66. His presence and testimony highlighted the unfairness of expecting an indigent defendant to get a fair trial without giving him access to forensic experts. Barney had requested such assistance months earlier, and Judge Jones had declined.
John Grisham
#67. She absolutely declined to be puzzled; she turned her eyes to the flame of the candle as if the question were as irrelevant, or at any rate as impersonal, as Mrs. Marcet or nine-times-nine.
Henry James
#68. I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.
Timothy Ferriss
#69. My own death threats have declined considerably.
Ian McKellen
#70. But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? Who at least ever declined a love secret? What sister could do so?
Anthony Trollope
#71. I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.
Jeff Landry
#72. When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
Barbara Tuchman
#73. Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.
G.K. Chesterton
#74. The Lannisters never declined, graciously or otherwise. The Lannisters took what was offered.
George R R Martin
#75. Most of them even thought of offering him the honour he had declined, for he who in such circumstances refuses a crown, always appears to be the most worthy of it;
Joseph-Francois Michaud
#76. They didn't give you a glass for that?" I ask, nodding at the soda can as I shake his hand. The old man laughs.
"They offered me one, but I declined. It's harder to spill on oneself from a can." Dr. Mann smiles and takes a careful sip.
Lauren Miller
#77. 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
#78. Around the world, America's influence has declined while president Barack Obama has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us.
Marco Rubio
#79. I don't know if people have gotten ruder or if my tolerance level has declined.
Tim Gunn
#80. They dug up so much silver to pay for their wars of conquest that the metal itself dramatically declined in value - that is to say, in its purchasing power with respect to other goods.
Niall Ferguson
#81. 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
#82. She had typed A Murder of Quality under protest, but this time she declined, so David had to rely on the Embassy secretaries instead. In a letter to Ann written in June, he complained that 'the new book drags along but the girls are all away and there's no one to type it'.35
Adam Sisman
#83. Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right ...
That flawed utterance is dearer to God!
Rumi
#84. And all the ministers of the various types of local Baptists had declined to participate in retribution for Monroe's failure to believe in a God with severe limitations on His patience and mercy.
Charles Frazier
#85. This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in the past two congressional sessions namely, to treat homosexuals as a special class protected under various titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Jesse Helms
#86. the prices seem to reflect how far Staples believes the user lives from a competitor's store. Staples confirmed that it varies prices by a number of factors but declined to be specific.
Julia Angwin
#87. On behalf of the King, the guards requested that she stay in the palace rather than with the locals, which Alice declined as she preferred to be treated just like other participants. A
Nona J. Fairfax
#88. 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
#89. Regrettably, the Aryans who invaded India and Persia intermarried with the local natives they found in these lands, losing their light complexions and blond hair, and with them their rationality and diligence. The civilisations of India and Persia consequently declined.
Yuval Noah Harari
#90. Though the day of my Destiny 's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find.
Lord Byron
#91. I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.
Barbara Tuchman
#92. It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures
Geoffrey Howe
#93. According to the prevailing extroversion assumption, inviting you is a nice gesture, and pressuring you is a compliment - an indication that you are wanted. How many times have you equivocated on or even declined an invitation, only to be asked again - and again?
Laurie A. Helgoe
#95. In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.
James Schuyler
#96. Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people went out and worked and they got off welfare.
Thomas Sowell
#97. Since Lenin died, every Soviet leader had been a liar. They had all glossed over what was wrong and declined to acknowledge reality. The most striking characteristic of Soviet leadership for the last sixty-five year was the refusal to face facts.(1075)
Ken Follett
#98. Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has declined by fifty percent just in the last thirty years.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#99. The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
John Thorn
#100. What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody ... that's stupid.
Salman Rushdie
