#decade

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this. ↗

— John Harsanyi

#chess #competitors #decades #games #haven

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#center #children #decade #earn #elderly

It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#been #decades #headlines #initiative #lost

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#barbarism #between #civilization #country #decadence

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#decade #each #easily #i #lived

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild. ↗

— Alan Autry

#cannot #decades #enthusiasm #immediately #must

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#black and white #celluloid #decade #next #white

If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#come #cut #decades #entire #failed

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it. ↗

— Steve Forbert

#changed #decades #folk-rock #hasn #much

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#children #decade #funding #last #machinery