#decline

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't. ↗

— Mary Astell

#decline #down #folly #go #gradual

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#been #decline #fall #finite #first

The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#businesses #crisis #declines #destroyed #economic

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

#basketball #caliber #called #college #college football

This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well. ↗

— Murray Walker

#circuit #declines #down #inclines #interesting

It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#audience #better #decline #finish #notices

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#aging #decline #follow #growth #i

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#days #decline #first #immortality #life

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#decline #even #i #literary #myths

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

#few #few things #friends #i #invited