(332 quotes found)
“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people”
Chinese Proverbs
“History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence”
Camille Paglia
“The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.”
David Sarnoff
“The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides”
Julian Barnes
“This happened over decades of hostile relations and I want to talk about it frankly,”
Kim Jong Il
“To agree on keeping a status quo that can't be kept has nothing to do with consensus. It's decadence.”
Hilmar Kopper
“In the past two decades, what is abnormal in the discourse among nations has been accepted as normal in US-Iran relations. Lack of diplomatic relations, often between countries at conflict, even at war, is the abnormality, not the norm.”
Cyrus Vance
“I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. BY all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.”
Erma Bombeck
“I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way.”
Helmut Kohl
“A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.”
Alexander Haig
