“[N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I'm a Red Tory. To get a fix on this category, you have to go back to the 19th century. The Tories… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My wife Hillary sometimes accuses me of trying to reinvent the 19th century. In some ways she's right because I like things… — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
This is football from the 19th century. It's very difficult to play a football match when only one team wants to play.… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of… — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
“One legislator accused me of having a 19th-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The two greatest characters in the 19th century are Napoleon and Helen Keller. Napoleon tried to conquer the world by physical force… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform… — Kenneth Frampton Copy Share Image
If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century,… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter… — John Maxwell Hamilton Copy Share Image
By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Back in the 19th century, our marketing folks decided to play up the refined usage angle because prescriptivism was very popular: our… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“At the end of the 19th century, people were filled with thoughts of future hope, but at the end of the 20th… — Joel T. McGrath Copy Share Image
New states were supposed to join the union when they reached a certain population, but in the late 19th century, population mattered… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else,… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I do work half time as a historian of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and I started my career… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
![“[N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.” quote by Alexis de Tocqueville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3bc/alexis-de-tocqueville-625_19th-century_n-ow-that-i-am-drawing-to-the-close-of-t_2080873.jpg)
![“A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of a learned doctor talking about somebody's pathologies. And then it would get really detailed. And then it would get really sweaty. And then you're like, "This isn't a…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1fd/elizabeth-gilbert-131_19th-century_a-lot-of-erotica-was-really-interestingl_1528847.jpg)
![“. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a…” quote by James A. Michener](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/182/james-a-michener-1627_19th-century_luddites-were-those-frenzied-traditional_76909.jpg)
![“If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.” quote by Benito Mussolini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/456/benito-mussolini-3049_19th-century_if-the-19th-century-was-the-century-of-t_258572.jpg)
