For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.
Fritz Todt

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.
Lee H. Hamilton

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.
Jim Costa

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
Roger Mudd

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.
John Conyers

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.
Whittaker Chambers

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
Arthur Peacocke

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.
Christopher Dodd

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
E. P. Thompson

For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.
Norman Borlaug

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
Francesca Annis

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.
Julian Bond

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

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
George Kennedy

I have been recording for five decades now.
Chuck Mangione

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.
Paul Hirsch

I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way.
Helmut Kohl

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
Orson Scott Card

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.
Peter Asher

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