Decades Quotes · Page 15

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a…

— Ian Bremmer

After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate…

— Michael Hastings

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

— Douglas Brinkley

My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

— Yoko Ono

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near…

— Martin Amis

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

— John Conyers

Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us…

— Kenneth Fisher

Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads.

— John Battelle

Look at electricity in human history - it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize the American economy. And the…

— Tyler Cowen

The women's movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so,…

— Bonnie Raitt

On a personal note, a legacy he left me, aside from being a friend who was important to me on many levels,…

— Curtis Hanson

I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation,…

— Julia Glass

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is…

— Robert Gilpin

Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the…

— Noam Chomsky

This country has attained 'Swarajya', but unfortunately the dream of 'Surajya' is left unfulfilled. Today, if there is any major challenge before…

— Narendra Modi

If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from…

— Paul Farmer

How can someone live with their own conscience when you reward a domestic terrorist with continued safety and betray the family of…

— Chris Christie

Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning…

— Jackie Chan

I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that…

— Missy Mazzoli

Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work,…

— William George Jordan

It's just that... working on 'Green Lantern,' I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it…

— Ryan Reynolds

Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy,…

— Camille Paglia

When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as…

— Christopher Hitchens

You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st…

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Marva Collins

If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

— John Doerr

“There was no recovery from what had happened. That would take decades; it would take a long life.”

— Markus Zusak

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

— Werner Herzog

“For thirty or forty years, through middle age, they would look almost exactly the same, and then all of a sudden the…

— Matthew Mather

The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation.

— Ryan Kavanaugh

Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save…

— Tony Robbins

The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next…

— James Hansen

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion…

— Brendan Gill

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was…

— Jimmy Carter

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

— Jamais Cascio

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We…

— Yoshihiko Noda

Very few companies can perform at scale over the course of decades, and Yahoo has done that.

— Ross Levinsohn

Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

— David Brin

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true.

— Barack Obama