#decline

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline. ↗

— Philip Roth

#downside #fear #gradually #greed #itself

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. ↗

— George Santayana

#adorn #among #any #away #beautiful

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ↗

— George Saunders

#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#both #boxing #cases #characters #decline

Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun. ↗

— Bill Walton

#been #changes #declined #fountains #fun

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#brow #day #decline #hill #indians

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going. ↗

— Cyril Clarke

#believe #could #decline #going #hereafter

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#dawn #decline #feel #love #recognize

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

— Jane Byrne

#become #chicago #decline #did #i

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace. ↗

— Paul Virilio

#civic #decline #drifting #effectiveness #fall