Decades Quotes · Page 10

For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

— Alex Berenson

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

— M. H. Abrams

I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.

— Martin Feldstein

I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good…

— Richard Thaler

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity…

— David Suzuki

When the decades pass and you're working in this business, the audiences get older with you. That's the nice part about it.…

— Alice Ripley

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

— Jerry Costello

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest…

— Thomas King

We have heard enough about being practical and efficient and prudent. We heard it preached through several decades that these things would…

— Ellis Arnall

Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the…

— Norman Mailer

Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and…

— Helen Prejean

The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Interracial marriages were basically legalized, but nevertheless, there was a social stigma attached to them for a long time to come. I…

— Mark Takano

Washington's address is virtually unknown today and has not been seen in most American history textbooks in nearly four decades. Perhaps it…

— David Barton

But really - look at the span of my career, and it's something people dream about. And to be spared major injury:…

— Mario Andretti

If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the…

— Joseph J. Romm

One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers…

— Vince Gilligan

Overwhelming the majority of European citizens are unhappy with the social deal they get, yes; and that is why they are so…

— Andre Vltchek

Em reminds me of one of my friends from back home. It was just so natural. I forgot in two seconds that…

— Alex da Kid

UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life,…

— Kofi Annan

For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize…

— Lee L Jampolsky

Although I will deeply miss the talented team at SCEA and the passion demonstrated every day by our fans, I'm very excited…

— Jack Tretton

“But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our…

— Doris Lessing

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war…

— Harry Browne

For decades, the key question has been 'how valuable is the brand?' The key question moving forward is 'how valuable are your…

— Jay Baer

“ Everyone’s got intimacy issues these days, in case you hadn’t noticed.” He must have; the population had been dropping for decades.”

— Peter Watts

I'll admit, when I look back on the past couple decades, a lot of it seems like a blur.

— Kane

This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it…

— Naoto Kan

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

— James Howard Kunstler

Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill…

— Jody Williams

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

— Paul Davies

I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

— Yoko Ono

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

— James Howard Kunstler

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

— Mike Pence

At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, writing articles, launching new…

— David H. Murdock

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the…

— Dieter Rams

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

— Condoleezza Rice

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

— Paul Tillich