Decades Quotes

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I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

We cannot afford to lose another decade. If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization.

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.

How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.

Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals.

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority.

The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.

For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that - situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the world's richest economy - Jamaica has no reason to be poor.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. 'To Pimp a Butterfly' is an extension of those albums.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university's board of trustees for more than three decades.

Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you.

Investing today may well be harder than it has been at any time in our three decades of existence.