The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and… — Rose George Copy Share Image
We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I pretend I'm from the 19th century. Then I drive around and say, Wow! So this is what the future's like,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
In the 19th century a man with 2 penises and woman with two vaginas were a living couple. — Muniir Zero Copy Share Image
Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly. — Warren Buffett 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
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
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
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
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
“[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
Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
“Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I love to try to understand first principles and be guided by that. But then, enrich them, because they won't last forever,… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Don't assume that the way that one searches and researches is the same from one era to another - it isn't. In… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“By the nineteenth century, society had given up burning witches. Yet the sexual exploitation of children continued. In late-nineteenth-century Britain, for example,… — Patrick J. Carnes Copy Share Image
“During the wars of the Empire while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and… — David Downie Copy Share Image
“But something special happened to American poetry in the 19th century when Walt Whitman broke with more traditional English poetics and fashioned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as… — Clare Wright Copy Share Image
“So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his orientation, his romping… — Michael Levenson Copy Share Image
“Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. The US is the Western empire of the 19th… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
“The men and women of the Golden Age, Hesiod wrote, lived in an eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed… — A.S. Byatt 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/i/3bc/alexis-de-tocqueville-625_19th-century_n-ow-that-i-am-drawing-to-the-close-of-t_2080873.jpg)
