Decadency Quotes & Sayings

We are the other of the other — Marcus Aurelius

1984 was alive and well in 2015. — Kenneth Eade

Leadership needs continuous learning from experience. Every time you learn something new, you re-wire your brain. — Amit Ray

Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games — John Wooden

If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates. — Stephen Jay Gould

Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know it is to know it from within, from your witnessing self. The more you become aware, the more you can watch your mind - its subtle functioning. The functioning is tremendously complex and beautiful. Mind is the most complex phenomenon on the earth, the most subtle flowering of consciousness. If you want to really understand what the mind is, then you will have to detach yourself from your mind, and you will have to learn how to be just a witness. That's what meditation is all about. — Rajneesh

In the party of Lincoln and Reagan and much of the donor class, the defense of human life is what they think loses elections. They think we need to spend time on really popular ideas, like cutting your mom's Social Security check. — Gary Bauer

I'm a stone-cold atheist. — Howard Bloom

My genes tie me to those that despised me. — Brother Ali

Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with Germany only in conjunction with the Allies; but we brought forward a separate peace, demanding for ourselves all the advantages of the Treaty of Versailles but rejecting all the responsibilities embodied in the Treaty. It was America's President who induced Europe to form a League of Nations; and then America was the first country that refused to joint it ... If these are not the symptoms of national decadency, what are they? — B.C. Forbes

Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself. — Saadi

He can who thinks he can. — Heber J. Grant

If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job. — Zooey Deschanel

I look. At the two-thirty spot I see a group of men watching two women kiss. I've never entirely understood why men like watching two women, or having two women at once. To me it just seems potentially confusing: four breasts, two whoosits, a lot of work to do ... I imagine blacking out from overload. — A.M. Homes