Top 50 Wane Quotes
#1. Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.
Julius Nyerere
#2. Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
Gary Hamel
#3. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane. The
Anthony Doerr
#4. Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as flawed as those of anyone else.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#5. When darkness falls and eyes stay shut
A chain of voices opens up.
Let wax not wane give breath to death.
p.s. Shhh -Yvonne Woon(Dead Beautiful)
Yvonne Woon
#6. Thus the sum
Forever is replenished, and we live
As mortals by eternal give and take.
The nations wax, the nations wane away;
In a brief space the generations pass,
And like to runners hand the lamp of life
One unto other.
Lucretius
#7. Ancient days of sorrow
ancient days of pain
-
heartaches of the past
slowly began to wane ...
(from gleaning granules)
Muse
#8. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#9. Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#10. Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain
Dawn will find them still again; This has neither wax nor wane, Neither stop nor start.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#11. Rachel scowled. "You've known Mrak longer than anyone alive. You know what I know - the things he's done, the things he hides from everyone else."
The Curator's smile did not wane as he shrugged. "Indeed I do. But judge-jury-executioner is not my calling. I'm just the gatekeeper.
S.G. Night
#12. ...he is the rising sun to the wane of my falling moon...
Bemy Wells
#13. I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last, down, down, to dumbest dust. Old man of oceans! of all this fiery life of thine, what will at length remain but one little heap of ashes!
Herman Melville
#14. As traditions of mourning wane, women's role as designated mourners has also vanished. In consequence, the woman elegist must summon her own resources as an artist.
Susan Stewart
#15. Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.
Tim Ferriss
#16. I always thought that if you had any real proximity to famous people, that your obsession with famous people, would wane is some way. Like, I wouldn't want to deep google Matthew McConaughey's early relationships for hours before I go to bed. And it's just gotten worse.
Lena Dunham
#17. He who immerses himself in sexual intercourse will be assailed by premature aging, his strength will wane, his eyes will weaken, and a bad odour will emit from his mouth and his armpits, his teeth will fall out and many other maladies will afflict him.
Maimonides
#18. Seconds ebb and wane. She's not afraid of her voice anymore, but she's not entirely sure she trusts it. She's seen the damage caused with a single word. Right now, each one is a weapon, a conduit of war, and she won't just throw them out there all willy-nilly.
Laura Kreitzer
#19. How sad if we allow our hearts to wane
And obscure our joy with enduring pain
While all things, good or bad, indisputably go by
Like morning that transmutes in evening sky
Joan Marques
#20. As people's capacities wane, whether through age or ill health, making their lives better often requires curbing our purely medical imperatives - resisting the urge to fiddle and fix and control.
Atul Gawande
#21. I've always had an unsentimental view. I don't think the BBC is my auntie. I worked there for years, and you learn that they don't love you for yourself. They'll use you as long as you're popular. You shouldn't wait until it starts to wane. It can sometimes end badly.
Terry Wogan
#22. Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps.
Kirk Hammett
#23. School and home seem to recede from us and their influences upon us seemed to wane.
James Joyce
#24. When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
Ezra Pound
#25. My to-be-read pile sadly would most likely outlive me - though I tried valiantly to catch up with it, I'd never get there. The allure of new books, new writers, characters who beckoned to me would never wane.
Rebecca Raisin
#26. I began life with a quenching of the light of day, and, from the first moment that I realized myself, realized also that I was on the wane.
Ivan Goncharov
#27. That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
Ben Barnes
#28. The village seemed very old, eaten away at the edge like the moon which had commenced to wane,
H.P. Lovecraft
#29. That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.
Amor Towles
#30. But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
Hermann Hesse
#31. I'd ... bet enthusiasm for 'ethnic cleansing' will wane if only sticks and rocks are available for the warring parties.
Bill Hicks
#32. Is it thy will that I should wax and wane,
Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey,
And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain
Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?
Oscar Wilde
#33. Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.
Greg Van Eekhout
#34. Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon.
Haruki Murakami
#35. There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.
Jeffrey Kluger
#36. The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
John Stuart Mill
#37. Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.
Albert Goodwill Spalding
#38. No doubt about it, summer was on the wane. The mornings seemed a shade cooler. The nights were hungry, and ate more daylight.
Robert McCammon
#39. If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.
Chuck Palahniuk
#40. Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane.
Daisaku Ikeda
#41. From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it when fade away.
W.G. Sebald
#42. That's how he feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.
Anthony Doerr
#43. It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.
Alain De Botton
#44. The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!
Thomas Hood
#45. Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.
Peter York
#46. Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.
Margaret Cavendish
#48. Oh, blessed trust! To trust Him ... whose power will never be exhausted, whose love will never wane, whose kindness will never change, whose faithfulness will never fail, whose wisdom will never be confounded, and whose perfect goodness can never know a diminution!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#49. The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.
James Surowiecki
#50. After the fire died down, what remained were two charred hearts, that once beat as one.
Anthony Liccione
