Quotes About Decade

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.

War would soon erode the facade of their building as though it had accelerated time itself, a day's toll outpacing that of a decade.

War would soon erode the facade of their building as though it had accelerated time itself, a day's toll outpacing that of a decade.

If we are to curb emissions in the next decade, we need a massive mobilization larger than any in history. We need a Marshall Plan for the Earth. This plan must mobilize financing and technology transfer on scales never seen before. It must get technology onto the ground in every country to ensure we reduce

emissions while raising people's quality of life. We have only a decade.

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

The eighties?' I said. 'As in, the nineteen -eighties? The decade that taste forgot? Honest, Sophie, ask your granny. Ask mine, if you like. She'll tell you the only good thing about it was that the internet and phone cameras weren't invented, well hardly anyway, so most of the awful photos are lying out of sight in drawers and shoeboxes.

The idea that it's valuable to maintain vast numbers of weak-tie social connections is largely an invention of the past decade or so—the detritus of overexuberant network scientists spilling inappropriately into the social sphere.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

America is a country in which the velocity of history is especially great, in which each succeeding decade wipes it's immediate predecessor out, a phenomenon that had moved some observers to remark that America has no history but only an eternal present.

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

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 family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.'

I think that's the fascinating thing about the '70s is that it turns out it was quite a dark decade. But, like, who knew?

Coriolanus winced a little. For a decade now, though the rebels had been silent, his grandmother had not.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

When I am up in Paris then the restaurant which has remained my favourite for the past decade is Guy Savoy. The menu is huge, sophisticated and very creative but I keep to simple choices.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

amor es lo que pasa un año de cada diez

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

The Almost Free Theatre, the Fun Art Bus and the rest of them were phenomena of a decade which was simultaneously playful and desperately serious; and