The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none. — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Copernican revolution was actually a contribution to the life of the church, the development of our view of ourselves in terms… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
My collection of historical fashion consists of about 10,000 pieces - dresses and accessories, from 18th century to today. The main focus… — Alexander Vassiliev Copy Share Image
If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
That is the way successful countries, and Canada has been one of the most successful countries over the past quarter century, they… — David Frum Copy Share Image
I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries.… — Fritz Haber Copy Share Image
The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century. — John C. Lettsome Copy Share Image
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century. — John Rothenstein Copy Share Image
The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century. — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century. — Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans Copy Share Image
