#decline

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#copies #decline #flea #i #ii

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#alone #begins #declines #embarrassment #our

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#become #chicago #decline #did #i

It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#america #asking #begun #belief #decline

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#almost #civilization #declines #necessarily #poetry

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. ↗

— George McGovern

#civility #country #decline #disgusted #getting

What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We personally grew. Gratitude for this growth is an appropriate response. Gratitude, and being careful never to make the same mistake twice. ↗

— George Saunders

#narcissism #personal-growth #personal-growth

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#after #almost #centuries #christ #countries

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#decline #europe #france #i #myself

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#decline #fault #may #their #unions