Decades Quotes · Page 11

For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

— Alix Kates Shulman

A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved…

— Joey Lawrence

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

— Freeman Dyson

Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs

— Kyle Bass

The cost of infrastructure development to host a mega-event can be offset against economic growth over future decades.

— Richard Attias

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than…

— Sean Lennon

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

— Toshihiko Fukui

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.

— Amity Shlaes

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved…

— Julie Klassen

I kind of have this sense of mission now when we talk about success: I'd really like Whole Foods to contribute to…

— John Mackey

Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and…

— John Legend

What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they…

— Doyle Brunson

The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put…

— Ike Skelton

The Financial Times is pro-British membership of the European Union. We have taken that position for decades. But we are not starry-eyed…

— Lionel Barber

With the same firmness with which I say that Iran represents a danger I tell Israel that you cannot and must not…

— Gianfranco Fini

In the past few decades, there has been a revolution in how we perceive the body. What appears to be an object,…

— Deepak Chopra

I hope everyone can give the audience that real, true experience. But Mandy [Moore] and I, we definitely jump decades, and I…

— Milo Ventimiglia

For me, to represent people who represent the future of Canada and the great challenges we will face over the coming decades…

— Justin Trudeau

If business is going to continue to sell through the decades, it must also promote an understanding of what made those products…

— Edward Francis Hutton

Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified…

— Sebastian Haffner

The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In…

— J.P. Moreland

I know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take…

— Carl Jung

What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century,…

— Andrew Schneider

For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.

— Alex Berenson

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

— Thomas Nagel

Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

— Nicholas Stern

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

— Fritz Todt

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it…

— Judit Polgar

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

— John L. Casti

“Days may pass into months, months may pass into years, and years may pass into decades, but I will always keep waiting…

— Avijeet Das

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good…

— Errol Morris

I don't celebrate birthdays much, except for decade-wise. It's not a really big thing.

— John Larroquette

When you listen to Prince you have no idea what decade it's from. It's beyond time.

— James Marsters

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

— Jerry Saltz

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

— Hermann Weyl

New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

— Anson Mount

After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge.

— Oliver Kahn

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

— George Papandreou