Decade Quotes

491 quotes by 418 authors

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding… — Orson Scott Card
You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden… — Saint Augustine
Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now… — Patti Smith
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most… — Richard P. Feynman
All along â€” not only since she left, but for a decade before â€” I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she… — John Green
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures,… — Baroness Orczy
I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be,… — William Gibson
I shut the bathroom door and caught sight of my face in the mirror. I had no idea how quickly it was to change, to… — Ruta Sepetys
I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.â€ â€œIâ€™m in love with her.â€ â€œI am sorry to hear that,â€… — Erin Morgenstern
I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able… — Jasper Fforde
I never wanted to get to a point in my life where I knew what was going to happen next. I felt like most people… — Dan Chaon
I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he… — Sarah MacLean
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,… — John F. Kennedy
As Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a many-headed sea snake,… — Lauren Oliver
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. — Thomas Pynchon
Youâ€™re right,â€ she acknowledged. â€œI donâ€™t know you, really. We spent all of about thirty minutes together nearly a decade ago. Still, I think the… — Julie James
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion… — Ronald Reagan
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, Iâ€™d found out long ago that I couldnâ€™t stay mad at a man wearing… — Kim Harrison

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