Top 34 Waned Quotes
#1. It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour.
Henry James
#2. Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?
Russell Baker
#3. During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.
Ben Shapiro
#4. Do you remember the suburbs and the plaintive flock of landscapes
The cypress trees projected their shadows under the moon
That night when as summer waned I listened
To a languorous bird forever wroth
And the eternal noise of a river wide and dark
(The Voyager)
Pierre Albert-Birot
#5. With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from those of the common people, made boxing unfashionable.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#6. Etiquette, Seward had once told Jamison, was all that mattered. Ideologies waxed and waned, religions developed and eroded, political parties rose and fell from power. Only courtesy remained one of the few things valued by all civilized men.
Connie Brockway
#7. What difference did it make whether they were hurt or happy, right or wrong, when the sun rose and the moon waned just the same, with or without them?
Elif Shafak
#8. George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.
Mark McKinnon
#9. The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.
Diablo Cody
#10. My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
Evelyn Waugh
#11. But deep down inside, I was no longer enamored with the life I'd created. The only purpose I was serving was self-interest. While I rarely showed it to outsiders, my happiness waned day after day. A restless voice kept me up at night, telling me that until I found meaning, the money wouldn't matter.
Adam Braun
#12. I've guess I've gotten older and my sex appeal has waned. It's OK. I've got an amazing girlfriend and she keeps me happy.
Mark Kozelek
#13. My fear again waned low, since a natural phenomenon tends to dispel broodings over the unknown.
H.P. Lovecraft
#14. There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.
Tony Campolo
#15. There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they are pushed to the background.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.
William Muir
#17. My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs in Tokyo (a first-time experience for this wine critic). Over the next five days, the attention never waned.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#18. We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
Bob Graham
#19. People do not expect to see signs and wonders today as the disciples saw them of old. Has God changed? Or has our faith waned so that we are not expecting the greater works that Jesus promised?
Samuel Wigglesworth
#20. Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.
Fran Lebowitz
#21. There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
Laura Wilkinson
#22. She bathed with roses red,
And violets blew.
And all the sweetest flowres
That in the forrest grew.
Edmund Spenser
#24. As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.
Shawn Amos
#25. Having a similar outlook on life is the central key for long-term sustainability in any love relationship.
John Friend
#26. The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year.
Mary Hart
#27. The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.
William P. Leahy
#28. Fake flattery or not, his words spiked my system with happy. Behold, the power of a guy paying attention to a girl.
Jenny B. Jones
#29. 'The Girlfriend Experience' was definitely the break-out. When it came out, I started getting other opportunities.
Sasha Grey
#30. Getting what you go after is success. Liking it while getting there is happiness.
David O'Brien
#31. A Searcher, a Wolf Son and a Warrior," she announced. I suppressed a laugh. I almost expected her to say "walked into a bar.
H.D. Gordon
#32. There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
Walter Savage Landor
#33. Tis aye a solemn thing to me
To look upon a babe that sleeps
Wearing in its spirit-deeps
The unrevealed mystery
Of its Adam's taint and woe,
Which, when they revealed lie,
Will not let it slumber so.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#34. My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity
a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.
James Boswell
