I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I… — William A. Patterson Copy Share Image
For decades, our differences with Iran meant that our governments almost never spoke to each other. Ultimately, that did not advance America's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
In my 20s I used to cry about why I wasn’t thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also… — Melissa McCarthy Copy Share Image
Liberals have been overselling the threat to reproductive rights for decades. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
I had the privilege of playing an angel on 'Touched by an Angel' for many years - almost two decades, and we… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries. — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Marijuana is quite possibly the finest of intoxicants. It has been scientifically proven, for decades, to be much less harmful to the… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked. We have… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and… — Dave Chambers Copy Share Image
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
I could cut my leg off. I could cut my arm off. I could gouge an eye out. I'd still probably survive.… — Philippe Cousteau, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image