Decade Quotes

491 Decade quotes by 418 unique authors

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage. — James Fallows
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble,… — Evelyn Waugh
In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double… — Jim Ryun
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning. — Brendan Gill
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were… — John Lahr
The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the… — Richard Leakey
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has… — Roger Mudd
When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the… — Kevin O'Leary
I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade. — Paul Oakenfold
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I… — Louise Penny
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest… — Bill Pascrell
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade. — Tom Perrotta
I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke. — Dana Plato
I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life. — Matthew Rhys
Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that. — David Sylvian
In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and… — Frederick Lenz
I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a… — Amy Waldman
In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community. — Chely Wright
My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using… — Shinya Yamanaka
Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy.… — Eric Bolling
Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It… — Richard K. Morgan
The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address… — Lou Gerstner
One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little article… — Tibor Fischer
I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable. — Tom Ford
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at… — Derek Jarman

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