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Regrets came up and asked me if I'd like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn't leave this relationship empty handed. -- Steve Toltz
My own death threats have declined considerably. -- Ian Mckellen
I've never declined to do an interview. -- Ken Livingstone
Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined. -- Frank Dane
After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal. -- Anibal Cavaco Silva
I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath. -- Jack Steinberger
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? -- Will Rogers
Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined. -- Steve Israel
A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter. -- Simon Newcomb
My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time. -- Edmund Phelps
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
Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased. -- Ralph Adams Cram
We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure. -- Shane Leslie
On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out. -- Arne Jacobsen
For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars. -- Alex Berenson
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined. -- Timothy Ferriss
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined. -- Timothy Ferriss
The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire. -- Charlie Pierce
I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long. -- Scott Rigell
The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States. -- Virgil Goode
If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option. -- Noam Chomsky
What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid. -- Salman Rushdie
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
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too. -- Walter Kirn
Rhye' clearly plays with notions of sexual identity, and it has made a concerted effort to keep its own identity mysterious. Its love songs are gender-neutral, the members have declined to appear in their own videos, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a photo of the duo that doesn't cast them in shadows. -- Will Hermes
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively. -- James Schuyler
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster. -- Livy
Democracy has both expanded and declined over the years. -- Noam Chomsky
Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined. -- Frank Dane
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined. -- Barbara Tuchman
Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined." -- G.K. Chesterton
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? -- Anthony Trollope
I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today. -- Jeff Landry
I don't know if people have gotten ruder or if my tolerance level has declined. -- Tim Gunn
The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, the more vital Godliness has declined. -- Nathanael Emmons
Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined. -- James Joyce
The price of gold is up 14 fold since last time I tried unfolding it. And laundry has declined two folds. -- Jarod Kintz
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth. -- Edward Abbey
Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined. -- Hermione Lee
The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased. -- Michael Parenti
Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself. -- Plutarch
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It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures -- Geoffrey Howe
I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have. -- Barbara Tuchman
Around the world, America's influence has declined while president Barack Obama has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us. -- Marco Rubio
Though the day of my Destiny 's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find. -- Lord Byron
The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later. -- Charles Colson
In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has declined significantly, from approximately 14 million in 1979 to slightly less than eight million in 2010. -- Seth Berkley
I thought it was remarkable in July [2016] when he pointedly declined to endorse Ted Cruz at the Republican convention, because I thought that was not in his political best interest... -- Josh Barro
The audiences certainly have [declined]. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows. -- Evelyn Waugh
When Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was before us in 1993, she said that her standard was to give no hints, no forecasts, no previews, and declined to answer dozens of questions. -- Orrin Hatch
The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush. -- Sidney Blumenthal
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
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
Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people went out and worked and they got off welfare. -- Thomas Sowell
On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out -- Arne Jacobsen
In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private schools. We're turning into Victorian England at a very rapid rate. -- Robert Hass
Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God! -- Rumi
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English. -- Stephanie Mills

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