Quotes of: Decadent Keyword

I wasn't scared of losing my past. i was scared of losing my future.

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now

The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.

How It All Began

addiction is an insidious disease that's always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike.

Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll

Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and hope.

The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

I think Gummy Bears should be the universal symbol for peace, because peace leads to prosperity, prosperity leads to decadence, and decadence leads to diabetes.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of dec...

The Will to Power

The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every decade. 1983 isn't that much different from 1986. But 1953 is very different from 1956.

Sara Sheridan

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own inte...

Gore Vidal

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

Al Gore

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

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.

The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

The feelings that still linger, decade after decade, aren’t just the residue of a love lost. They are as real as the first day I told her I loved her." ~Corbin Jones, Voice of Innocence

Voice of Innocence

Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good admirals.

The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and tr...

Jane Smiley

When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.

Jesse Ventura

The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse.

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

I'll pray for you." "That's very kind of you." "I can't spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a decade. I've got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week.

Brideshead Revisited

achieving true sobriety goes beyond abstinence. it's also about healing your soul, apologizing for damage you did to other, and seeking forgiveness.

Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll