Declination Quotes & Sayings

I wasn't going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen. — Glenda Millard

Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity. — Michael Bassey

The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the return of the declination to its original value is slightly ahead of the period of the centre. Hence it necessarily follows that the equinoxes and solstices seem to anticipate their timing, not because the sphere of the fixed stars moves to the east, but rather the equatorial circle moves to the west, being at an angle to the plane of the ecliptic in proportion to the declination of the axis of the terrestrial globe. — Nicolaus Copernicus

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves. — Aeschylus

Time goes on even when we do not. — Tahereh Mafi

Pain is a breach in the walls of decline and stagnation. — Bryant McGill

There are two things that matter in a criminal investigation of a subject.What did the person do, and when they did that thing, what were they thinking? When you look at the hundred-years-plus of the Justice Department investigation and prosecution of mishandling of classified information, those two questions are obviously present. — James Comey

Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom. — Maxwell Perkins

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different — Rohinton Mistry

I couldn't stop it from happening," I told her. "I've been able to stop it before, but this time I just couldn't stop it from happening." "Well, now." Her blue eyes were very wise. "You've learned a valuable lesson from this, then, haven't you? You can't cheat fate, Julia. If you don't go looking for the lessons of the past, then the past will come looking for you. — Susanna Kearsley

The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up. — John C. Maxwell

Rowan's physical effect- godlike jawline, long-lashed eyes, umber skin, rakish quiff of hair- is that of lightening strike. — Helen Oyeyemi

Fearing that Taft would be too reticent on the stump, Roosevelt barraged him with incessant advice. "Do not answer Bryan; attack him!" he counseled in early September, adding, "Don't let him make the issues. — Doris Kearns Goodwin