Quotes About Decades

When he blew up, close to a couple of decades of performance were overshadowed by a single event that only lasted a few minutes.

?itate Celinea? upotao je ženski glas. Zvu?io je seksi. U zadnje sam vrijeme bio nešto sam. I tako desetlje?ima.

This is what people have been missing: politics shouldn't be about the dour cultishness and pomposity that dominated the left for decades - it should be joyful and exuberant.

I like to mix influences from different eras, like maybe '70s bell-bottoms, something fun from the '80s, or a bit of '90s grunge.

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

the passing decades have taught me that political elites and cultural elites are doing far more damage than the market elites could ever get away with doing.

Ma koliko bili stari, uvek o?ekujemo neki obrt, jer smo daleko od zdravog razuma. Svi ti odlu?uju?i obrti desili su se pre više decenija, samo ih tada nismo opazilikao takve, kao odlu?uju?e obrte.

The implicit consensus of the postwar decades was now broken, and a new, decidedly unnatural consensus was beginning to emerge around the primacy of private interest.

Conservatism—not to mention the ideological Right—was a minority preference in the decades following World War II.

So: as of 2011, after many decades of being the official and much-funded hypothesis, the Aryan Invasion Theory has still not been confirmed by even a single piece of archaeological evidence.

Even at a distance of decades, people invoking Gandhi's name still evade the hard questions raised by Godse in his speech.

The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

Lotte, I asked without beating around the bush, what decade would you choose—the sixties, the seventies, or the eighties? She fell silent for a moment and gave the best answer that can be given to such a question: I'd like to be twelve years old in each of them. That would be my answer, too.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.

I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.

At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.

Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ... turn Vietnam into a developed country in the coming decades.

there are deep stubborn veins of nostalgia for the 1950s (even among people my age; in much of Ireland the fifties didn't end until 1995, when we skipped straight to Thatcher's eighties),

The war against radical Salafi-Jihadism has been going on for several decades already and it will span many more and the U.S. must be preparing mentally for it.

Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.

For decades, the Left has occupied a special place in the minds of educated Indians - outside of the two states (Bengal and Kerala) where it has a political presence and is therefore treated like any other political party.

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.