When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it. — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in… — Jim Bunning Copy Share Image
I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of… — Tim Tebow Copy Share Image
The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill. — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as… — Zygmunt Bauman 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
It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the… — Raphael Patai Copy Share Image
How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude -… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope.… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
For centuries, we were taught that anger is bad. Our parents, teachers, priests, everyone taught us how to control and suppress our… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was… — Thomas Frank 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
A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven"… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
But the 20th century suffered "two" ideologies that led to genocides. The other one, Marxism, had no use for race, didn't believe… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables… — Jean Sylvain Bailly Copy Share Image
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years. — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century. — John Doerr Copy Share Image
How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century, — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper. — Chris Brogan Copy Share Image
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
