I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is… — George C. Edwards III Copy Share Image
The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971.… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
I don’t mind the disapproving ones so much. It’s the tolerant ones I can’t stand, the ones who smile at Rose, who… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon… — Ken Auletta Copy Share Image
Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy.… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century. — Anne Stevenson 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
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Fetish is the exploration of sex as art, and the refinement of one’s personal desires. Anything can be fetishised...There’ll be new fetishes… — Rick Castro Copy Share Image
Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute." "Billy", the teacher cried. "This is… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries,… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century. — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story.… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully… — Robert Scholes Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as Psychologist X, as Author X? He suggests man of… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people… — Murray Horwitz Copy Share Image
But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music.… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
