Story Of A Decade Quotes

#1. You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate ... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation ...

Patrick Symmes

#2. He dreamt ... he was a huge white egg floating in the sea of turquoise blue, and he was everything that there was.

Iris Murdoch

#3. Is it ever acceptable to be angry at God? I would suggest that it is not only acceptable, it may be one of the hallmarks of a truly religious person. It puts honesty ahead of flattery.

Harold S. Kushner

#4. Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

Julia Roberts

#5. Dig into almost every overnight success story and you'll find about a decade's worth of hard work and perseverance.

Austin Kleon

#6. BLAM! BLOOEY!
Twin thunderstorms struck Chesapeake Bay at about the same hour two weeks apart in the last spring and summer of the eighth decade of the twentieth century of the Christian era and bracketed our story like artillery zeroing in.

John Barth

#7. No matter how this world changes, you can survive.

Abi Ketner

#8. Mandela? He lasted 27 years in prison but he never could've done 30.

Serge Ibaka

#9. There is a world out there, out beyond us. And now we are part of this world. It is terrifying and wonderful

Carrie Ryan

#10. We are what we read. It's probably better that way.

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. I've seen people spend a lot of time wishing things are not the way they are. This kind of activity is a waste of mental and emotional energy that needs to be directed toward how God intended you to live today.

Jonas Beiler

#12. We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.

Paul Bloom