Decade Quotes

491 Decade quotes by 418 unique authors

One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level… — Sebastian Haffner
Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey… — Joschka Fischer
His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an ad noting that… — Unknown Author
The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest. — Osbert Sitwell
...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every… — Donald Knuth
I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a tiny… — Unknown Author
There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes… — Chaka Fattah
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. — Eric Allin Cornell
Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the first 10 years… — Orhan Pamuk
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of… — Louise Brown
For many people in the U.N., the 1990s was the worst decade the organization experienced. This was the decade of Somalia, Srebrenica, of Rwanda and… — Unknown Author
I think that a hat which has a little cannon that fires and then goes back inside the hat is at least a decade away. — Jack Handey
We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take… — Bill Gates
The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile. — Will Self
For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20.… — Yotam Ottolenghi
[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their people had come… — Unknown Author
The idea that I would get to see this revival was almost overwhelming. And in the last decade or so, I believe we have seen… — Lester Sumrall
In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while… — Rainn Wilson
One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would… — Evgeny Morozov
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade… — Michelle Alexander
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What… — Kwame Dawes
The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights… — Michael Foley
We commend GM for being the first out of the starting gate in the Great Plug-In Car Race of 2007. GM's announcements are the biggest… — Felix Kramer
Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all. — David Horowitz

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