Rapid Decline Quotes

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Like so many Americans, I am sick and tired of watching the rapid decline of our culture right in front of our eyes.

Reading 'The Third Sex' feels a bit like flying in a veering helicopter over a rain forest that is disappearing before one's eyes.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

My body is dropping so fast, my gynecologist wears a hard hat.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.

His descent was like nightfall.

I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year.

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen.

Receding power rides a swift horse.

I realize that as quick as you go up, you can really come down that quick. And we've seen it happen with others.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

It can get good quickly in this league, and it can get bad quickly.

Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.

Things that burn very brightly, we wonder how long they can keep burning.

A lot of actors flame out.

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

I kicked off... and things went on from there... down and down.

Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'

Any time a political movement shrinks dramatically, very quickly, it is almost impossible to unify.

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; an hour may lay it in the dust.

With my dad it was a short time between him getting ill and passing. He got ill first and he took a turn for the worse very quickly, within days.

We are losing our environment so rapidly.