Century Quotes

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

— Anonymous

[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as…

— Pico Iyer

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

— Anonymous

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914…

— George Orwell

Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be…

— Kevin Maney

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word.…

— James A. Garfield

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs…

— Ida B. Wells

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as…

— Phil Zimmermann

While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous,…

— Barbara Tuchman

The young people today are the 21st century.

— Martin Scorsese

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a…

— Henry A. Wallace

For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing…

— William Gibson

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul…

— Simone Weil

Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design…

— Anonymous

You’ll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century.…

— Beano Cook

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly…

— Martha Beck

The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created…

— Paul Craig Roberts

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

— Theodore Zeldin

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of…

— Carl Sagan

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate…

— John Ortberg

Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

— Edward Abbey