Decade Quotes

491 Decade quotes by 418 unique authors

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it… — Jim Butcher
Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing… — Sebastian Faulks
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work… — Barbara Kingsolver
Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a… — Michael Crichton
Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade… — Jonathan Safran Foer
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century.… — Nicholas D. Kristof
I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable. — Kelley Armstrong
Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday."… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like… — Joni Mitchell
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 — not only since she left, but for a decade before — 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.” “I’m in love with her.” “I am sorry to hear that,”… — 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

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