Decades Quotes - Page 4

Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Air, Wings, Next

17 Copy quote
Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to a level of food price volatility we haven't seen since the oil crisisof 40 years ago. Unfortunately, this could be just a taste of things to come because in the next few decades the build-up of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere could greatly increase the risk of droughts, flooding, pest infestation and water scarcity for agriculture systems already under tremendous stress.

John Beddington

Stress, Weather, Oil

6 Copy quote
Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

Carre Otis

Motherhood, Perspective, Joy

"Ending the Myth" by Carré Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

4 Copy quote

Show source
And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Steve Case

Couple, Past, People

9 Copy quote
The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling its lethality every few years. And the result is that we are outdistancing not merely the capabilities of our enemies but our allies as well - many of whom who have not fought in decades - at such a dizzying pace that our sheer destructive power makes it hard to work with others in joint operations.

Victor Davis Hanson

Military, Fighting, Technology

5 Copy quote
Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa, Saudi Arabia, New York, and Yemen - suggest to our terrorist enemies that it was wrong and unwise to kill reasonable and affable people, or did the easy killing imply that self-absorbed and pampered Lotus-eaters would not much care who or how many were butchered as long as it was within reasonable numbers and spread out over time?

Victor Davis Hanson

New York, Past, Numbers

15 Copy quote
If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.

Ben Bernanke

Typical, Population, Generations

4 Copy quote
Ever since I left Greece more than two decades ago, it has been my dream to return and perform at the Acropolis. This project took more than a year and a half to plan and accomplish, and I would like to thank my band and crew and the scores of people involved in helping my dream become a reality.

Yanni

Dream, Reality, Years

13 Copy quote
The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.

Jim Rogers

Wall, Real, Cities

13 Copy quote
While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria – half a world away from the United States – more than 47,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 in Mexico. A deeply troubled state as well as a demographic and economic giant on the United States’ southern border, Mexico will affect America’s destiny in coming decades more than any state or combination of states in the Middle East.

Robert D. Kaplan

Destiny, America, People

4 Copy quote
The skill sets it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, a successful marketer, or a relevant celebrity is a different skill set than you needed ten years ago, even though that was the skill set that mattered for decades.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Successful, Years, Skills

5 Copy quote
Every baby born
unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come
due in twenty years with interest, an anger
that must find a target, a pain that will
beget pain. A decade downstream a child
screams, a woman falls, a synagogue is torched,
a firing squad is summoned, a button
is pushed and the world burns.

Marge Piercy

Baby, Children, Pain

4 Copy quote
One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

Siegfried Lenz

Balance, Embarrassment, Made

7 Copy quote
I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

Robert Wyatt

Business, Thinking, People

4 Copy quote
As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so that they can be tested by observation. He will realize that the history of human thought shows that the ideas of which we are surest are the ones we most need to test. He will realize that his common sense only mirrors his training and experience. What seems natural and right to him is usually a reflection of the conditions under which he spent his first decade of life.

Jacque Fresco

Reflection, Men, Ideas

30 Copy quote
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

Harold Acton

Two, Lasts, Fiction

7 Copy quote
A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can tell you it is a real possibility. Just imagine it. We have already begun discussion of the last two substantive points: victims and the end of the conflict.

Juan Manuel Santos

Dream, Real, Years

14 Copy quote
I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

Sean Lennon

Years, Film, Mediums

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

7 Copy quote

Show source
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

Fiona Shaw

Generations, Obsession, Obsessed

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

4 Copy quote

Show source
How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.

Bud Selig

Baseball, Past, Two

4 Copy quote
If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

Michael Kinsley

Usa, Political, Half

7 Copy quote
With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

Mariella Frostrup

Baby, Couple, Giving

"Let's give older mothers a break". www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

4 Copy quote

Show source
Since 1960, there have been more plastic syringes available than anyone could need. And yet, for the decades since then, WHO has done NOTHING to stop the spread of vicious diseases that result from the mass re-use of dirty needles.

Jon Rappoport

Dirty, Needs, Use

4 Copy quote
I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

Matt Stone

Atheist, Thinking, Self

"Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Americans" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.

4 Copy quote

Show source
The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the homelands is felt within a decade in the foreign mission-fields, and the records of missionary enterprises and the pages of missionary biography following I860 are full of clearest evidence of the stimulating effect of the Revival throughout the world.

J. Edwin Orr

Foundation, Missionary, Records

10 Copy quote