For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux… — Eugene Atget Copy Share Image
Man is unable to accurately predict events which are but twenty-four hours distant; only the Divine Mind could have foretold the future,… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military… — James L. Jones Copy Share Image
I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
Home-based businesses are one of the fastest-growing segments in our economy, and that trend will only continue, as the age of the… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose. — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
...animal research is essential to tackling major 21st century health problems such as cancer and heart disease. Without the use of animals… — George Radda Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
Do people in the twenty-first century still dance?" My heart beat thundered in my ears, far louder than the slow music. "Um,"… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes -… — Robert Hormats Copy Share Image
To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries:… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it. — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century.… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Copy Share Image
For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy. — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
I think it is important that people be made aware that the vegetarian movement has a venerable history behind it. It didn’t… — Rynn Berry Copy Share Image
He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents,… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ...… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
With globalization and with a lot of power evaporating from the nation-states, the late-19th century established hierarchies of importance, or 'pecking orders'… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image