I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
“a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly—and with very limited funds.” — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion. — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“How much of twentieth-century poetry, how much of my own poetry, is the cry of the damned?” — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash,… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“As recently as the twentieth century, some cultures retained religious prohibitions asserting the “uncleanliness” of believers eating at the same table as… — Ted Gioia Copy Share Image
And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Never mind that from the 1600s until the late twentieth century the population the United States was 85% white, 12% black, and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
A word to the wise to all the children of the twentieth century, whether their concern be pediatrics or geriatrics, whether they… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century. — Jack the Ripper Copy Share Image
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