Decades Quotes · Page 9

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

— Mitch Kapor

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

— Ray Kurzweil

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

— Jurgen Habermas

I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult…

— Keith Murray

We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in…

— Narendra Modi

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It's taken years for people to figure out how to make good content with a gamepad, even though they've been using gamepads…

— Palmer Luckey

Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed…

— Tom Bodett

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

It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've…

— Carrie Brownstein

Having said that, Angela Merkel's electoral district is here [ in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania].And so, if Chancellor Merkel loses here, her party, which…

— Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating…

— Dwight Garner

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

In the Trump administration we will end decades of policies that enrich special interests and foreign countries at our expense.

— Donald Trump

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the…

— Steven Chu

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.

— Steven Pinker

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on…

— John Olver

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

— Bill Gates

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which…

— Thom Gunn

You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and…

— Woody Allen

I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't…

— Robert Sietsema

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