Quotes of Decade - somelinesforyou

“ I had a good decade. ”

- Brady Anderson

“ My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more. ”

- Walter Matthau

“ It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. - King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I think he is a week away from conditioning. ”

- Pat Riley

“ The slide of market share for GM and Ford has been a three-decade story. ”

- Paul Taylor

“ I think the '70s was the last pure decade. Once you're in the '80s, you're in the post-modern era. ”

- Robert Thompson

“ It's a great feeling. It definitely hasn't happened in this decade where Hand has been 5-0. It's always nice to be undefeated, that's for sure. ”

- Tom Brady

“ I think it takes more than three years. We need to string together a decade or two to match something like that. ”

- Tom Brady

“ It's the type of step you would want to take when you've had a decade-long fixed structure,... I think they've been cautious and admirably so. ”

- Alan Greenspan

“ You'd have an instant decade-long waiting line. ”

- John Gay

“ I'd say everyone on the Democratic side thinks mid-decade is a mistake. ”

- Zoe Lofgren

“ I waited a decade to get here, so I better enjoy it! I love it. I'm a late bloomer, and it's just all good. ”

- Diane Lane

“ It is fun to be in the same decade with you. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. ”

- Abbie Hoffman

“ I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again. ”

- George W. Bush

“ I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do. ”

- Rosalynn Carter

“ Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year — and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ Something that we think is impossible now will not be impossible in another decade. ”

- Constance Baker Motley

“ The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ 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. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ Thirty — the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will? ”

- Kofi Annan

“ In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress… for more than a decade. ”

- Craig Bruce

“ Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade. ”

- Elizabeth Dole

“ It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state. ”

- Alan Dershowitz

“ I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ It is a picture postcard lost for eight decades in the mail. ”

- Wayne King

“ I realize that each year it has changed and grown until I know that, a decade from now, what I might say of it would seem like an echo of what has been instead of what is. ”

- Juliette Gordon Low
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