Decades Quotes · Page 16

In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being…

— Warren Farrell

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

— Norman Lock

I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two…

— Ahmed Zaki Yamani

We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than…

— Barack Obama

I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life…

— Olympia Snowe

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.

— Chris Hardwick

We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.

— Tony Robbins

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

— Gore Vidal

The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with…

— Samuel P. Huntington

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions…

— Thomas Frank

There have been so many interpretations of both Batman and the Joker in the comic books themselves over the decades, from one…

— Michael Uslan

I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went…

— Spike Lee

[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent…

— James Howard Kunstler

By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts -…

— Frank Tipler

In an industry afflicted by sequelitis, it has taken John Boorman almost three decades to make the sequel to his much-cherished Hope…

— Joe Morgenstern

Why are people so supportive of him [Osama bin Laden] in many countries? Hes been out in these countries for decades building…

— Patty Murray

We commend GM for being the first out of the starting gate in the Great Plug-In Car Race of 2007. GM's announcements…

— Felix Kramer

Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy…

— Wendell Berry

When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that…

— Margaret Thatcher

Jeph (Loeb) will call me with updates, and I'll go, "Are you f--king with me?" I never saw this coming, and certainly…

— Brian Michael Bendis

Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple.…

— Ben Shapiro

“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams,…

— Anonymous

Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for…

— Ted Cruz

Milton on speed. I am going to need about a decade to think about that. That delay in syntax, the putting off…

— Matthew Zapruder

Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African…

— Samantha Power

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade…

— Brian Kernighan

The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade.

— Steve Jobs

Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but its hard with a kiss.

— Rachel McAdams

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

— Michael Porter

If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business…

— Peter Thiel

Look the, the American worker has been losing - for decades now. We've seen manufacturing in decline here in the industrial Midwest.

— Mike Pence

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

— Anonymous

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man…

— John F. Kennedy

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.

— John le Carre

I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.

— Paul Auster

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

— Joe Biden

What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn't allow most of the population to share in the gains from…

— Mark Weisbrot

Apparently Sodapop Curtis said "gnarly," and Chris Traeger said "literally." Every decade I have a favorite phrase I can't stop with.

— Rob Lowe

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician. I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for…

— Robert Jarvik

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

— Austin Kleon