Decades Quotes

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.

It's a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don't give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures you will be glad to have.

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.

No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.

The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come.

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

But liberals love to drape themselves in decades-old glories they had nothing to do with.

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.

I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade.

I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns.

The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades.

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

As a Latin man, obviously immigration has been a part of my culture for decades. [I] grew up understanding what you go through in order to come to this country and searching for that American dream.

When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people are really much more educated on stand-up comedy.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind. It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

For more than 60 years, the United States has stood by our allies and partners in the Asia Pacific. That includes our defence partnership with Singapore, which stretches back more than two decades.

[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.